[MacRuby-devel] Intro, looking to get involved

Greg Vaughn gvaughn at gigavolt.net
Thu Aug 6 20:02:23 PDT 2009


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.

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.

-Greg Vaughn



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