[BioRuby] tutorial

[Chris Fields]

Heh, similar to this: http://wiki.cpantesters.org/

It's good to see this for ruby!

chris

On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> This has been recently created for rubygems -
> http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/introducing-gem-testers/
> 
> On 3 March 2011 14:12, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:
>> Thanks Peter and Chris. I am glad we can learn from your experience.
>> 
>> Toshiaki had a very cool idea today (on IRC). The implications
>> carry beyond BioRuby gems.
>> 
>> My wish is to see whether BioRuby and plugins are running well on
>> different Ruby implementations, and operating systems.
>> 
>> The reality is that developers won't test every possibility.
>> 
>> On the other hand, users do ;)
>> 
>> Also, for every plugin and BioRuby we create tests.
>> 
>> Users can run those tests.
>> 
>> So, what we need is a tool to report test results to some central DB
>> 
>> If any user can simply run a test - say bioruby/test/test_any1.rb - we
>> could ask them (or they can choose to do it themselves) and
>> automatically update the DB centrally through a web service.
>> 
>>  biogem --report-test test/test_any1.rb
>> 
>> Resulting in:
>> 
>>  BioRuby, test_any1.rb runs on ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [i686-linux]
>> 
>> or, worse scenario, fail with trace ;)
>> 
>> We could pass in more info (dependencies etc).
>> 
>> Not too hard to implement, and a great resource for docs and feedback
>> to users.
>> 
>> This would be interesting to rubygems in general. Debian uses
>> something similar for packages. What do you think? I don't think
>> BioPerl or BioPython has that, correct?
>> 
>> Pj.
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