[MacRuby-devel] Supported classes & methods diagram fed from rubyspec

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi Ben,

I wasn't aware of that project, it looks good indeed. And the fact  
that it can be reused for different implementations of Ruby is very  
cool too :)

Laurent

On Oct 1, 2009, at 11:48 PM, Ben Schwarz wrote:

> Laurent,
>
> I just had a quick chat with Brian Ford (Rubinius) apparently  
> they're looking at using some incarnation of git://github.com/madriska/unity.git 
>  (http://unity.madriska.com/)
> Which uses a YAML formatter for mspec. (http://github.com/madriska/mspec/commit/36b8bce62c272d546bcbd8ab9f136576ff4701e5 
> )
>
> I think this might be the best way to get something that works  
> running. I'm sure that all the ruby implementations would benefit  
> from the shared work effort in this regard.
> We could start by investigating unity, chatting to the author and  
> seeing if we can make some contributions.
>
>
>
>
> On 02/10/2009, at 4:23 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> That sounds like a good idea and looks like what I had in mind.
>>
>> I was thinking of having a status page, that shows hitlist items  
>> (critical bugs / things to do for the upcoming release), some  
>> rubyspec progress, a link to the latest nighty build, etc.
>>
>> The hitlist thing could be generated from a local file from the  
>> repository. We currently use TODO for that.
>>
>> We wrote a special mspec formatter in order to know what percentage  
>> of a given spec category we do pass. But having a more detailed  
>> view (classes / methods as you suggested) might be more  
>> interesting, this way we know on what class / method to focus in  
>> priority. Assuming that the mspec formatter is altered a little  
>> bit, this information could also be generated after a spec:ci pass.
>>
>> Is that what you had in mind?
>>
>> I guess the challenge here is to write a program that generates a  
>> Webby page for our website, commit it to the repository every time  
>> a change is made, then we would re-deploy the site right after.
>>
>> Laurent
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Ben Schwarz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> I've had some loose discussions with @lrz regarding a visual  
>>> representation of classes and methods that are working via the  
>>> rubyspec.
>>> This would enable developers to find an area of development to  
>>> focus on and also for end-users to understand what they might face  
>>> before
>>> conducting any development using macruby (bringing real  
>>> applications closer to tuition, rather than a start/stop experience)
>>>
>>> I'm happy to offer some hours to get something together that is  
>>> styled like macruby.org but I obviously need to:
>>>
>>> 	A) consult the group
>>> 	B) work out a spec
>>> 	C) have something setup on the macruby.org infrastructure.
>>>
>>>
>>> Discuss.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -
>>>
>>> Ben Schwarz
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>>>
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