From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2005-02-16T12:21:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Source code checker

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Michael Gebhart wrote:

> currently I am doing my first steps with ruby. It's really great, but
> sometimes I'm doing some very stupid mistakes

Make an absolute habit of using
   ruby -w

And during the development phase, ruby -wd is helpful.

Also create unit tests. They are a great idea.

   grep -n test/unit /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/*.rb

will get you a list of examples to follow.

See /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit.rb for documentation.



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