The RubySpec project aimed to write a complete executable specification for the

Ruby programming language Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language which supports multiple programming paradigms. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. In Ruby, everything is an object, including pr ...

. This project contains specs that describe Ruby language syntax and

standard library In computer programming, a standard library is the library made available across implementations of a programming language. These libraries are conventionally described in programming language specifications; however, contents of a language's as ...

classes. The project contains two main components: * the RubySpec sources * the MSpec framework The RubySpec test suite captured most of 1.8.6/1.8.7/1.9 behavior as a reference conformance tool.

Ruby MRI Matz's Ruby Interpreter or Ruby MRI (also called CRuby) was the reference implementation of the Ruby programming language named after Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"). Until the specification of the Ruby language in 2011, the MRI impleme ...

1.9.2 passed over 99% of RubySpec, while version 2.2.0 crashed on one of the tests.

History

The RubySpec tests were initially created in 2006 for the

Rubinius Rubinius was an alternative Ruby (programming language), Ruby implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 ''Blue Book'' design, Rubinius sought to "provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code." ...

project, with significant contribution from the

JRuby JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language atop the Java Virtual Machine, written largely in Java. It is free software released under a three-way EPL/GPL/LGPL license. JRuby is tightly integrated with Java to allow the embedding ...

project. It is now used in other Ruby implementation projects such as

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. The RubySpec project was discontinued at the end of 2014 due to a lack of uptake from mainstream ruby developers. It was later revived by Benoit Daloze as "The Ruby Spec Suite", and is as of 2018-04-20 actively maintained at https://github.com/ruby/spec.

References

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