Hi, On Nov 1, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Laurent Sansonetti <lsansonetti@apple.com
wrote: Hi guys,
Things are shaping pretty nicely in trunk and we expect to release the second beta in a few days. We receive bug reports every day, it's great that people are testing it, and the final release will be awesome :-)
If you are interested in contributing to the project and you do not have the time or expertise to learn the source code & contribute patches, there are still crucial things that you could do:
I have the following questions in regards to submitting code/patches:
1) Is there an Xcode project file for operating on the source?
No, there isn't.
2) How does properly create a patch file for submittal and should this be filed as a ticket?
I recommend using the patch functionality of the SCM you're using. If you work with SVN, you can simply change files, then: $ svn diff > patch.diff And you can enclose the .diff file to a Trac ticket. .
1) Test as many Ruby code (gems, libraries) as possible with MacRuby and report us feedback, if the code crashes, runs slowly or leaks all your memory. If you report a runtime crash, it would be even better if you could take the time to reduce the problem into a few lines of Ruby, this saves us (well, me :)) time. Things we don't run yet (but should): rspec, mocha, activesupport (that's a big one!), etc.
Yes, activesupport is keeping from playing with activemodel at the moment. Also, RSpec, at the absolute minimum, would be a great addition to the MacRuby project. Is anyone working on activesupport at the moment?
I looked a few weeks ago and noted a few bugs, that have been fixed since. It's a perpetual approach, trying to run something, hitting a bug, reducing it, fixing it, etc. I would prefer to have rspec working first, though :-) AFAIK nobody is working on this yet. Laurent