Hello Greg, On Aug 6, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Greg Vaughn wrote:
Hello, I thought I'd take a minute to introduce myself. I've seen a few posts of people having trouble building, but wanted to report that it went clean for me right off the bat. There's a few test failures and errors though.
rake spec:ci Finished in 156.295783 seconds 1553 files, 6256 examples, 18175 expectations, 8 failures, 134 errors
I pulled from the macruby-mirror github repo John-Paul Bader posted today.
I think these errors are because you did not install MacRuby before running the specs. This is a temporary problem with C extension bundles, they must be installed before we can run their specs. Hopefully this will be very soon fixed.
For starters, are those test failures/errors to be expected? If so, is the easiest way to get my feet wet to tackle some of those? Any in particular I should avoid because of the complexity for a newbie, or that someone else is deep into?
My pedigree, in case that helps anyone nudge me in the right direction: taught myself BASIC in Jr. High, Apple II assembler in High School, C during college pursuing a Physics degree, first job in Newtonscript, Java (for a long time, too long), bought Pickaxe the hour it was released <g>. Lately I'm been directing my career more towards Ruby and Javascript. Last year was almost all Rails.
I live in the Dallas area. I'm a husband and father, so my free time would not be considered copious, but I'm excited about MacRuby and will make time to help.
Very glad you like the project :-) There are various ways to help the project: writing documentation (tutorials), creating or porting code examples, finding & reporting bugs (and possibly with a patch :-)), helping passing all RubySpecs, contributing missing features to the VM/compiler, etc. Let us know what you prefer to do and we can surely find you work :-) Laurent