Hi,
As we're targeting 1.9 compatibility, the library that will be shipped
with MacRuby is minitest. Atm however, we still have an older version
of the stdlib, which means we still ship test-unit.
I myself have put my trust in Bacon, and as far as a "blessing" goes,
all critical bugs encountered with Bacon have been fixed.
Eloy
On 9 okt 2009, at 07:58, Josh Ballanco wrote:
Hey all!
So, as I've been working on a recipe for testing with MacRuby, I
realized that it would probably be good to discuss the topic of
"blessing" a particular test suite. Obviously, with macgem all of
the Ruby test suites are available to use, but for the purposes of
tutorials and whatnot, having one default that ships with MacRuby
would help reduce confusion and at least get people started on the
road to testing. Personally, I think whatever ships with MacRuby
should ideally be light-weight, extensible, and integrated. In other
words, the heavy hitters like Test::Unit, RSpec, and Shoulda are
out. That leaves:
-- minitest: The "blessed" test library of Matz Ruby. It's very
minimal, but documentation is somewhat lacking. I also couldn't find
an easy spot to hook into the API to customize output format. Still,
if it's good enough for Matz Ruby...
-- bacon: Small, and output is easily customized. I'm currently
looking at what would be required to get bacon's output to play
nicer with Xcode. The one unknown (for me, at least) is popularity/
familiarity in the larger Ruby community.
-- OCUnit: This is the Objective C test library that ships with
Xcode. We could put a thin wrapper around it, and then not worry
about having to ship a separate test library. The major downside to
OCUnit is that it's not very "Ruby-ish".
I'm quite enamored with bacon, but I'm worried about the possibility
that developers coming from Matz Ruby might start to expect minitest
to be included. That might be a remote possibility, though, as it
seems like minitest isn't currently that popular. If there are
others I missed, or if you disagree with any points, speak up!
Cheers,
Josh
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