From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2005-01-08T23:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: FIT ( or Fitnesse ) ... for Ruby?


On Jan 7, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Jeff Wood wrote:

> I read once that Dave Thomas is/was working on a port of Fit ( or 
> Fitnesse ) to Ruby.  Where has that project gone?  I haven't heard 
> anything recent ...

Ward asked me to port his Java version to Ruby, which I did a long time 
back. At that point, he was interested in keeping all implementations 
of it the same, and so was very keen that the port was basically a 
transliteration of the original source. That lead to some really ugly 
Ruby code, which was depressing to work with.

On top of that, Fit had a very Java-centric interface: the way the 
column headings were interpreted, for example, made sense in Java but 
wasn't particularly workable in dynamically-typed languages such as 
Python and Ruby. There were workarounds, which Brian and I experimented 
with, but again it wasn't particularly pleasant.

I handed the code over a while back. I believe it should be available 
from the Fit project -- you might want to ask Jim Little.


Cheers


Dave