[MacRuby-devel] call for help!

Conrad Taylor conradwt at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 18:52:11 PST 2009


On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Laurent Sansonetti <lsansonetti at apple.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote:
>
>  On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Laurent Sansonetti <
>> lsansonetti at 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.
>
>
So, you tend to do something similar the following:

1)  [ create and ] execute the appropriate spec

2)  edit the code

3)  rake

4)  if spec_passes? go to (5).  Otherwise go to (2)

5)  move to the next issue


>
>  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 :-)
>

Laurent, I will take a look at RSpec this week.

-Conrad


>
> AFAIK nobody is working on this yet.
>
> Laurent
>
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