diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 **/*.sw?
+**/node_modules
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/README.md b/matthew_ringel/README.md
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+++ b/matthew_ringel/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#Simple Test and Modular Pattern Homework Submission#
+##Matthew Ringel##
+##27 October 2015##
+
+greet.js is a module that returns an object with a method called greet which takes one argument, expected as a string.  Calling the method will output 'hello NAME' where NAME is the string passed as an argument.
+
+greetcl.js is the command line utility.  Usage is
+
+'''node greetcl.js [name]'''
+
+where [name] is a string.
+
+
+The test for the part bonus isn't working.  The argument parser is set up to throw a TypeError is the given argument is not a string.  I tried to set up a test to test for the error using expect(fn).to.throw(TypeError)
+but it didn't work.
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/greetcl.js b/matthew_ringel/greetcl.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a10142
--- /dev/null
+++ b/matthew_ringel/greetcl.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var Greet = require('./lib/greet');
+var greet = new Greet();
+
+var arg_parse = require('./lib/arg_parse.js');
+var nameString = arg_parse.parse(process.argv[2]);
+
+console.log(greet.greet(nameString));
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/lib/arg_parse.js b/matthew_ringel/lib/arg_parse.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2f46ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/matthew_ringel/lib/arg_parse.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+'use strict';
+
+exports = module.exports = {};
+
+exports.parse = function(arg) {
+  if (typeof arg != 'string') {
+    // throw "argument is not a string!";
+    throw new TypeError('string!');
+    // return arg.toString();
+  }
+  else {
+    return arg
+  }
+};
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/lib/greet.js b/matthew_ringel/lib/greet.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c40cc36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/matthew_ringel/lib/greet.js
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var Greeting = exports = module.exports = function() {
+  this.greet = function(name) {
+    return 'hello ' + name;
+  };
+};
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/test/greet_test.js b/matthew_ringel/test/greet_test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81c711e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/matthew_ringel/test/greet_test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var expect = require('chai').expect;
+
+var greetConstructor = require(__dirname + '/../lib/greet');
+var greetModule = new greetConstructor();
+
+describe('the greet function', function testGreet() {
+  it('should return hello NAME', function greetExpect() {
+    expect(greetModule.greet('NAME')).to.eql('hello NAME');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/test/parse_test.js b/matthew_ringel/test/parse_test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ef177c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/matthew_ringel/test/parse_test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var chai = require('chai');
+var expect = chai.expect;
+var assert = chai.assert;
+
+var arg_parse = require('../lib/arg_parse.js');
+
+describe('the parse function', function testParse() {
+  it('should return a string', function stringExpect() {
+    expect(arg_parse.parse('NAME')).to.eql('NAME');
+  });
+  it('should throw an error', function errorExpect() {
+    // expect(arg_parse.parse(0)).to.throw(TypeError);
+    assert.throws(arg_parse.parse(0), TypeError, 'string!')
+  });
+});