[MacRuby-devel] I want to help too

[Eloy Duran]

Hi Perry,

I wouldn't worry too much about duplicate efforts, there aren't many  
people working on the core itself.
What you could do to start out, is to run the rubyspecs in spec/frozen/ 
language, as they should all run iirc, but there are some tagged ones.

To run spec all which are tagged as failing:

./mspec/bin/mspec run -I./lib -B ./spec/macruby.mspec -g fails ./spec/ 
frozen/language --format spec

(Actually, right now there's one causing a segfault.)

You can then verify that the spec is valid for 1.9.x (HEAD), if not it  
should be updated, if it is then MacRuby should be fixed. I think this  
is a great way to start on the C parts of MacRuby.

Besides the fails tag there are also specs tagged as critical, which  
will segfault etc. So there's actually a nice list of places that need  
to be fixed :) Be sure to check out the mspec-tag script to list all  
tagged specs.

HTH,
Eloy

On 29 jun 2009, at 15:46, Perry Smith wrote:

> I'm an old crusty C programmer.  I have a masters in CS and my focus  
> was languages and compilers.  MacRuby and LLVM are really exciting  
> to me.  I use a Mac.  Working with Ruby since 2006.  Love Rails. etc  
> etc.
>
> I saw a previous thread in the archive  where a newbie wanted to  
> help and the reply was to help with testing.  Thats fine.  I'm  
> worried about duplicate effort .  Maybe split off some bugs / test  
> cases I can work on?  Most of my work will be during the weekends  
> but I think I'd like to start setting things up during this week.
>
> Take care,
> Perry
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