[BioRuby] tutorial
Chris Fields
cjfields at illinois.edu
Thu Mar 3 19:42:28 UTC 2011
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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