[ruby-core:17576] Re: rubychecker - runs checks on a Ruby interpreter

Igal Koshevoy wrote:
> I've put together a shell script that runs checks on a Ruby interpreter. 
> This should make it easier to see if a certain release of the 
> interpreter passes our favorite suite of tests.
> 
> I've uploaded its test results for p36ubuntu, p111ubuntu, p238, p265 to:
>    http://code.google.com/p/rubychecker/downloads/list
> 
> You can install the program via:|
>    git clone git://github.com/igal/rubycheck_sh.git|
> 
> The usage instructions and dependencies are listed in the included 
> README.txt, which can also be seen at:
>    http://github.com/igal/rubycheck_sh/tree/master/README.txt
> 
> This script requires an installed copy of "ruby" to run against -- which 
> you may have just compiled, ran a make install against, and added to the 
> PATH (see README.txt for example). This is significant in that all this 
> script is doing is recording how that interpreter performs on external 
> test suites. If we want something that tests the compilation of the 
> interpreter and such, that belongs in another script.
> 
> When we get around to setting up a continuous integration (CI) system, 
> it'd make sense to have a wrapper script that builds Ruby and installs 
> it to a temporary directory (see README.txt for example), and then runs 
> this checker against it.
> 
> The currently runs the test suites for:
> - rubyspec head
> - rspec 1.1.4
> - rails 1.2.6
> - rails 2.0.2
> - rails 2.1.0
> 
> Adding additional suites is easy.
> 
> Running all these tests takes roughly 20 minutes.
> 
> I chose to write this with "bash" because it's portable and requires few 
> dependencies. Using shell also lets me write code that you can paste 
> into a terminal and easily debug, alter and follow, unlike, say "make". 
> However, if there's a desire to port to another language or tool, it'll 
> be easy enough to do so because this provides all the shell commands 
> that this other tool will need to run.
> 
> I've only tested this on my Ubuntu 7.10 AMD x2 and Ubuntu 8.04 Intel 
> Duo. It should be easy to port this to other UNIX variants.
> 
> What it doesn't work yet:
> - Any OS other than UNIX
> - Any Ruby interpreter other than MRI 1.8
> - ..?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -igal
> 
> 

Looks good so far. I decided to go ahead with my profiling stuff, which 
I am building as a Rakefile (just giving myself one more chance to write 
a DRY one.) :) So I am going to add a task to download your shell script 
and run it. Right now, I'm installing the dependencies. It turns out 
that the only one that isn't in Gentoo Portage is "mspec".

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