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author | eregon <eregon@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2017-05-07 12:04:49 +0000 |
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committer | eregon <eregon@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2017-05-07 12:04:49 +0000 |
commit | 95e8c48dd3348503a8c7db5d0498894a1b676395 (patch) | |
tree | 9eef7f720314ebaff56845a74e203770e62284e4 /spec/rubyspec/README.md | |
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Add in-tree mspec and ruby/spec
* For easier modifications of ruby/spec by MRI developers.
* .gitignore: track changes under spec.
* spec/mspec, spec/rubyspec: add in-tree mspec and ruby/spec.
These files can therefore be updated like any other file in MRI.
Instructions are provided in spec/README.
[Feature #13156] [ruby-core:79246]
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diff --git a/spec/rubyspec/README.md b/spec/rubyspec/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1657c568b --- /dev/null +++ b/spec/rubyspec/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +# The Ruby Spec Suite + +[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ruby/spec.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/ruby/spec) +[![Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/1gs6f399320o44b1?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/eregon/spec-x948i) + +The Ruby Spec Suite is a test suite for the behavior of the Ruby programming language. + +It is not a standardized specification like the ISO one, and does not aim to become one. +Instead, it is a practical tool to describe and test the behavior of Ruby with code. + +Every example code has a textual description, which presents several advantages: + +* It is easier to understand the intent of the author +* It documents how recent versions of Ruby should behave +* It helps Ruby implementations to agree on a common behavior + +The specs are written with syntax similar to RSpec 2. +They are run with MSpec, the purpose-built framework for running the Ruby Spec Suite. +For more information, see the [MSpec](http://github.com/ruby/mspec) project. + +The specs describe the [language syntax](language/), the [core library](core/), the [standard library](library/), the [C API for extensions](optional/capi) and the [command line flags](command_line/). +The language specs are grouped by keyword while the core and standard library specs are grouped by class and method. + +ruby/spec is known to be tested in these implementations for every commit: +* [MRI](http://rubyci.org/) on 30 platforms and 4 versions +* [JRuby](https://github.com/jruby/jruby/tree/master/spec/ruby) on Travis for both 1.7 and 9.x +* [TruffleRuby](https://github.com/graalvm/truffleruby) on Travis +* [Opal](https://github.com/opal/opal/tree/master/spec) on Travis + +### Running the specs + +First, clone this repository: + + $ git clone https://github.com/ruby/spec.git + +Then move to it: + + $ cd spec + +Clone [MSpec](http://github.com/ruby/mspec): + + $ git clone https://github.com/ruby/mspec.git ../mspec + +And run the spec suite: + + $ ../mspec/bin/mspec + +This will execute all the specs using the executable named `ruby` on your current PATH. + +### Running Specs with a Specific Ruby Implementation + +Use the `-t` option to specify the Ruby implementation with which to run the specs. +The argument may be a full path to the Ruby binary. + + $ ../mspec/bin/mspec -t /path/to/some/bin/ruby + +### Running Selected Specs + +To run a single spec file, pass the filename to `mspec`: + + $ ../mspec/bin/mspec core/kernel/kind_of_spec.rb + +You can also pass a directory, in which case all specs in that directories will be run: + + $ ../mspec/bin/mspec core/kernel + +Finally, you can also run them per group as defined in `default.mspec`. +The following command will run all language specs: + + $ ../mspec/bin/mspec :language + +In similar fashion, the following commands run the respective specs: + + $ ../mspec/bin/mspec :core + $ ../mspec/bin/mspec :library + $ ../mspec/bin/mspec :capi + +### Contributing + +See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/ruby/spec/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). + +### History and RubySpec + +This project was originally born from [Rubinius](https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius) tests being converted to the spec style. +These specs were later extracted to their own project, RubySpec, with a specific vision and principles. +At the end of 2014, Brian Shirai, the creator of RubySpec, decided to [end RubySpec](http://rubinius.com/2014/12/31/matz-s-ruby-developers-don-t-use-rubyspec/). +A couple months later, the different repositories were merged and [the project was revived](http://eregon.github.io/rubyspec/2015/07/29/rubyspec-is-reborn.html). +On 12 January 2016, the name was changed to "The Ruby Spec Suite" for clarity and to let the RubySpec ideology rest in peace. |