From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T23:44:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby?s not ready - an indepth essay

Gregory Seidman wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I remember Matz having good things to say about them at
> RubyConf 2007. I think the main issue is that very little time or effort is
> being put into MRI in favor of YARV-based 1.9 development. Since Ruby 1.9
> (the language) is not compatible with 1.8, and hasn't been 100% nailed down
> as I understand it, the test suite would need some revising before it could
> be used for what is actually being developed right now.

There are de facto test suites for 1.9.

1. Programming Ruby, 3rd Edition
2. Rails
3. Rspec
4. ZenTest

...

;)