The RubySpec project aimed to write a complete executable specification for the
Ruby programming language
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language which supports multiple programming paradigms. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. In Ruby, everything is an object, including p ...
. This project contains specs that describe Ruby language syntax and
standard library classes. The project contains two main components:
* the RubySpec sources
* the MSpec framework
The RubySpec test suite captured most of 1.8.6/1.8.7/1.9 behavior as a reference conformance tool.
Ruby MRI 1.9.2 passed over 99% of RubySpec, while version 2.2.0 crashed on one of the tests.
History
The RubySpec tests were initially created in 2006 for the
Rubinius project, with significant contribution from the
JRuby
JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language atop the Java Virtual Machine, written largely in Java. It is free software released under a three-way EPL/ GPL/ LGPL license. JRuby is tightly integrated with Java to allow the embeddi ...
project. It is now used in other Ruby implementation projects such as
IronRuby
IronRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language targeting Microsoft .NET Framework. It is implemented on top of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), a library running on top of the Common Language Infrastructure that provides dynam ...
.
The RubySpec project was discontinued at the end of 2014 due to a lack of uptake from mainstream ruby developers.
It was later revived by Benoit Daloze as "The Ruby Spec Suite", and is as of 2018-04-20 actively maintained at https://github.com/ruby/spec.
References
Free software programmed in Ruby
Ruby (programming language)
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