# Getting started pages

The following pages and posts are tagged with

Title | Type | Excerpt
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Configuring rules | Page | Learn how to configure your rules directly from the ruleset XML.
Installation and basic CLI usage | Page | Sums up the first steps to set up a CLI installation and get started using PMD
Making rulesets | Page | A ruleset is an XML configuration file, which describes a collection of rules to be executed in a PMD run. PMD includes built-in rulesets to run quick analys...
Introduction to writing PMD rules | Page | Writing your own PMD rules