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The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2016-05-16 · latest 2024-12-31

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  1. There's a full blown test suite for Ruby which the various implementations use: https://github.com/ruby/spec
    comment by loktarogar · 2024-12-31 · in Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler
  2. …there was an open source project to formally specify Ruby, but I don’t know if it’s still alive: https://github.com/ruby/spec Hmm, it seems to be alive, but based more on behavior than syntax.
    comment by mcphage · 2024-11-02 · in Weird Lexical Syntax
  3. …is the source of truth [2]. [0] https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius-website-archive/blob/87... [1] https://github.com/ruby/spec [2] http://ruby.github.io/rubyspec.github.io/bugs_found/
    comment by wrs · 2022-09-12 · in The Protobuf Language Specification
  4. …Probably eventually with, if not a Sun-style validation suite, a Ruby-style Spec Suite ( https://github.com/ruby/spec ).
    comment by masklinn · 2022-01-04 · in Rewriting Libimagequant in Rust for Portability
  5. Yes that's https://github.com/ruby/spec - now primarily maintained by TruffleRuby people.
    comment by chrisseaton · 2021-11-11 · in A History of the Rubinius Ruby JIT
  6. …how capture groups should not be expanded into globals on `String#=~`. I'll file an issue [0]. [0] https://github.com/ruby/spec/issues/676
    comment by p4lindromica · 2019-08-04 · in Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust
  7. …is complete, this would mean that the MRI runtime could be implemented entirely in Rust [2]. [0] https://github.com/ruby/spec [1] https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/tree/master/spec-runn... [2] https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/iss…
    comment by lopopolo · 2019-08-04 · in Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust
  8. …cover everything, but it's used and contributed to by multiple implementations, and looks healthy https://github.com/ruby/spec/graphs/contributors
    comment by riffraff · 2016-11-21 · in Ruby 2.3.3 released
  9. …it as a standalone project, it was adopted by someone else and now lives in the MRI org on GitHub https://github.com/ruby/spec .
    comment by chrisseaton · 2016-05-16 · in Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years