This is part of a series of articles I started with Quality Assurance and Automated Testing in Open Source Software. Ruby is a relatively young dynamic language that got a serious boost in the recent years thanks to the Rails framework for building web application.
DevelopmentDevelopment and patching is described on the Ruby Core page. Version control: Subversion Building Ruby from the trunk requires an already working version of Ruby. The commands to build Ruby are easy: svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk ruby cd ruby autoconf ./configure make make test PASS 729 tests Actually one can run either make test that will run a smaller set of tests (currently 729 unit tests) or make check that will run a larger set of test but what has crashed last time when I tried with Segmentation fault.
TestingIn the test suit of Ruby they employ the Test::Unit Ruby class. This class provides a set of assertions for the unit tests such as assert(trueness), assert_equal(expected_value, received_value), etc... Tests can be found in the test/ subdirectory of the source code.
Automated TestingI asked on the Ruby-Core development mailing list and according to the response there is not automated smoke testing in Ruby. On the other hand the Rubinius project aimed at creating a virtual machine for Ruby has its own separate set of test creating the specifications. Published on 2007-08-22 by Gabor Szabo
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