From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-11-13T12:11:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner: how to use gedcom parser


On Nov 12, 2011, at 09:15 , François Boone wrote:

> Ryan Davis wrote in post #1031481:
>> On Nov 11, 2011, at 08:35 , François Boone wrote:
>> 
>> I usually look at the tests. A quick glance at tests/parser_spec.rb
>> seems to have some usable examples.
> 
> Thank you Ryan for your hint.
> However, it doesn't work
> 
> What I did:
> I installed gedcom gem with: gem install gedcom
> All seems ok
> 
> I use Ruby:
> $ruby --version
> ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-darwin10.2.0]
> 
> I try date_spec.rb: (from tests/date_spec.rb)
> $ ruby date_spec.rb
> 
> and I get
> date_spec.rb:2:in `<main>': uninitialized constant GEDCOM (NameError)
> 
> Do I miss something? What don't I understand?
> I am sorry if these questions are too basic.

My guess is that you need to be in the root directory of the project and type 'rake'. Let the rakefile take care of pathing and how to run the spec. 

That said, I was suggesting that you READ the specs so you can understand how the code is to be used.