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+Introduction
+============
+
+Purpose
+-------
+
+Ranch is a socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.
+
+Ranch aims to provide everything you need to accept TCP connections
+with a small code base and low latency while being easy to use directly
+as an application or to embed into your own.
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+It is assumed the developer already knows Erlang and has some experience
+with socket programming and TCP protocols.
+
+In order to run the examples available in this user guide, you will need
+Erlang and rebar installed and in your $PATH.
+
+Please see the [rebar repository](https://github.com/basho/rebar) for
+downloading and building instructions. Please look up the environment
+variables documentation of your system for details on how to update the
+$PATH information.