Hi Shane,
On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Shane Witbeck wrote:
Just chiming in here with regard to contributing code. I actually
have the
opposite problem here where I can generally contribute patches but
I'm a
total n00b with respect to writing specs. I'd be more inclined to
contribute
more if there was an outline/example for submitting a patch and it's
specs.
Perhaps something quick done on the wiki?
This is perhaps more personal than you are looking for, but I recently
submitted a patch for the idea7x task which includes specs ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-241
). Since you originally wrote that task, those specs might be
interesting for you to look at.
More generally, buildr's specs are written using rspec. The rspec
docs provide a pretty good introduction to the concepts: http://rspec.info/documentation/
. Since buildr's spec coverage is already pretty decent, I can
usually find a spec for similar functionality to figure out how to use
the test environment. E.g., for those idea7x specs, I looked at the
specs for the eclipse task.
Rhett
