From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T20:23:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems undermine unit testing

On 9/27/05, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> I release all my software as gems  They are installed on my system as gems and
> yet am able to test all my software without contortions.  I use the Rake test
> task to run my tests (and it sets up the library paths on the command line).

I, too, release all my software as gems. I don't, however, use the
Rake test task, finding that it works poorly on Windows. However, all
of my Rake files *do* run my tests inline. Look at what I do with
Text::Format for an example. The PDF::Writer Rake task is up to date
for this, I just don't yet have any unit tests for it ;)

You *will* need to make sure that, for local installations, you put
your libraries into the $LOAD_PATH, otherwise RubyGems will find them.

-austin
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