On Jun 15, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> 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.

I'm happy to help anyone resolve issues with rubygems-test either here, as 
appropriate, or on the tracker at github (see luis's email for the link). I 
think you'll find integration with most gems fairly straightforward, but I'm a 
bit biased. :)

-Erik
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