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Return a `const` reference to the rule set maintained by this category manager. The mutex returned by `rulesetMutex` should be locked prior to accessing the rule set.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_categorymanager.h>`

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xref:BloombergLP/ball/RuleSet.adoc[RuleSet] const&
ruleSet() const;
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