I have been working on the basis that MRI is the reference implementation
and so the specs should reflect that. If, on writing a spec, an obvious bug
is exposed then we should be sending this on to the RubyLang lot and getting
them to fix it.
Otherwise if it's good enough for MRI its good enough for me.
---
By the way, I had this idea of creating a small program that would help with
regression testing against MRI. Instead of writing full RSpecs, we should
write snippets of Ruby that work the classes. The program would then run
the snippets against MRI and IronRuby (and any other implementation if you
wanted) and compare the results. That way you could directly check how
similar IR was to MRI without having to fix up the specs all the time. Also
it would be much quicker and easier to write the specs since you wouldn't
have to check what the correct result should be in each case.
For instance, you could have the following snippets of code for the
Fixnum#div method:
2.div(2)
1.div(2)
5.div(2)
8192.div(10)
8192.div(-10)
(-8192).div(10)
(-8192).div(-10)
1.div(0.2)
1.div(0.16)
1.div(0.169)
-1.div(50.4)
1.div(0xffffffff)
0.div(0.0)
10.div(0.0)
-10.div(0.0)
13.div(0)
(obj = Object.new).should_receive(:to_int, :count => 0, :returning =>
10)
13.div(obj)
5.div("2")
Obviously with some description mechanism and possibly some way of
specifying what should be considered in the output from Ruby: whether to
check the class and value of results returned; type and fields of objects
passed in; if errors are raised the type and message of the error.
Anyone fancy knocking this up?
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Young
Sent: Wednesday,14 May 14, 2008 11:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] changes to extname_spec.rb
Unnikrishnan Nair wrote:
> One more spec change. Could you please review line 8 of this spec, it
> should read
>
> File.extname(".bashrc").should == ".bashrc"
>
> instead of
>
> File.extname(".bashrc").should == ""
Quick question: are the specs supposed to ensure that IronRuby matches
MRI's behaviour, or just that it's internally consistent? I get this in
MRI's IRB:
irb(main):001:0> File.extname(".bashrc")
=> ""
Also in YARV:
irb(main):002:0> File.extname(".bashrc")
=> ""
--
Alex
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