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On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:18 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Sylvester Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> By the way, (and because I still owe Bruce and Rintze an example) I have 
>> been playing around with converting the citeproc-test JSON data into 
>> cucumber features; you can take a look at an example at:
>> 
>> https://github.com/inukshuk/citeproc-ruby/blob/master/features/condition/is_numeric.feature
>> 
>> The advantage of cucumber features is that they are extremely intuitive and 
>> easy to write. Although, in this case the main complexity in formulating a 
>> test case is in defining the style and input data.
> 
> Yes. Only downside is it's then Ruby-specific.

Yes (although I believe there is a Java implementation around); however, the 
step definitions in this case are extremely simple (e.g., see 
https://github.com/inukshuk/citeproc-ruby/blob/master/features/step_definitions/citeproc_steps.rb),
 therefore, you could easily use Ruby sorto of like a shell script that fires 
up rhino, hugs, or ghc and feeds the test data to citeproc-js or citeproc-hs.

Not to stray too far off topic, though, you are of course right that an 
implementation agnostic test suite isthe best option going forward.

> Seems you have some other news of sorts: that one can now do "gem
> install citeproc-ruby".
> 
> Cool!

It is still very experimental and incomplete but I guess 'release early' won't 
hurt at this point. (It only works in Ruby 1.9. at the moment, though, because 
of differences in unicode handling.) I have also reconsidered your advice and 
changed the license to a two-clause BSD license.

Sylvester


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