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Author: Steve Pulec <spulec@gmail.com>
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+# Moto - **Mo**ck Bo**to**
+
+# In a nutshell
+
+Moto is a library that allows your python tests to easily mock out the boto library
+
+Imagine you have the following code that you want to test:
+
+```python
+import boto
+from boto.s3.key import Key
+conn = boto.connect_s3()
+
+class MyModel(object):
+    def __init__(self, name, value):
+        self.name = name
+        self.value = value
+
+    def save(self):
+        bucket = conn.get_bucket('mybucket')
+        k = Key(bucket)
+        k.key = self.name
+        k.set_contents_from_string(self.value)
+```
+
+Take a minute to think how you would have tested that in the past.
+
+Now see how you could test it with Moto.
+
+```python
+import boto
+from moto import mock_s3
+from mymodule import MyModel
+
+@mock_s3
+def test_my_model_save():
+    model_instance = MyModel('steve', 'is awesome')
+    model_instance.save()
+
+    conn = boto.connect_s3()
+    assert conn.get_bucket('mybucket').get_key('steve') == 'is awesome'
+```
+
+With the decorator wrapping the test, all the calls to s3 are automatically mocked out. The mock keeps the state of the buckets and keys.
+
+# Available Moto services:
+*    S3
+*    EC2
+*    DynamoDB
+
+HTTPretty is a HTTP client mock library for Python 100% inspired on ruby's [FakeWeb](http://fakeweb.rubyforge.org/).
+If you come from ruby this would probably sound familiar :smiley:
+
+#### Install
+
+```console
+pip install moto
+```