On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Conery John wrote:
> FWIW, my two cents:  This change makes perfect sense for most Ruby users, but 
> it will be a minor irritant for me -- I wrote some Ruby code for students to 
> install, and I'd like to minimize the number of things they need to download 
> to set up their environment.  In this case I have an easy workaround, though. 
>  I have them run a setup script after installing my gem, and I can just 
> modify this script so it does the unit tests.

Unfortunately the --test code had been unmaintained for so long it barely 
worked.  Moving it out of RubyGems allowed Erik Hollensbe to do an excellent 
job on it since he had the time, willingness, and ability to quickly release 
new versions with improvements and bug fixes.

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