Re: [Ironruby-core] Requesting contributions to IronRuby

2009-04-05 Thread Thibaut Barrère
Hi Shri, I'm ready to start contributing (I signed the agreement and am now able to run the specs on my machine). I thought I'd focus on system/popen, but maybe there are simple things that have a higher priority ? cheers, -- Thibaut ___ Ironruby-core

Re: [Ironruby-core] Requesting contributions to IronRuby

2009-04-05 Thread Shri Borde
For mocking static CLR interfaces and abstract types, there is not much the DLR can do. You need to create types on the fly which implement the CLR interface you want to mock. I believe that is what most of the popular mocking frameworks like NMock, Moq, RhinoMocks, etc do. You could take a loo

Re: [Ironruby-core] Requesting contributions to IronRuby

2009-04-05 Thread Shri Borde
Fixing the tags for IO.popen sounds fine. Once you get a few changes in, it will be more useful to focus on bugs affecting specific real-world apps since that enables real, useful scenarios. However, starting off fixing RubySpec tags is good too as a ramp-up activity since the problems are narr

Re: [Ironruby-core] Requesting contributions to IronRuby

2009-04-05 Thread Jimmy Schementi
Mark and I have spoke about this before, and really what we need is to pick a .NET mocking framework and write a RSpec/Mocha-like wrapper around it, as the APIs provided by Moq, NMock, etc need some rubification. As Shri said, the DLR-itself won't help with this. Mark, does this make sense? ~js