"What should I work on in Rubinius?"

drbrain@segment7.net (Eric Hodel) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:23:35 -0800

Occasionally, people drop into the Rubinius IRC channel and ask what they should work on. The answer in the past has been, “write some specs” which can be some terribly boring work and is not very motivational. Fortunately, I have a solution for that.

I think the best way to get involved in Rubinius is to take your favorite Ruby project and try to run it on Rubinius. Whatever problem you run into first, fix that (including writing specs, of course).

My work on running RubyGems in Rubinius has involved running the RubyGems tests, seeing where they fail, then moving over to Rubinius and fixing whatever failure I’m having. This way I’m highly motivated because my end goal, making RubyGems work, is easily in sight. (Of course, when RubyGems is working, I’ll need a new goal, maybe RDoc).

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"What should I work on in Rubinius?"