http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2008/07/09/request-to-all-tutorial-writers en-us 40 Musings from a Ruby on Rails development team From now on, if your writing this&#8230; <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_shell ">git clone git://github.com/sam/extlib.git git clone git://github.com/sam/do.git cd extlib rake install ; cd .. cd do cd data_objects rake install ; cd .. cd do_mysql # || do_postgres || do_sqlite3 rake install</code></pre></div> <p>Instead, tell your readers to do this&#8230;</p> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_shell ">git clone git://github.com/sam/extlib.git git clone git://github.com/sam/do.git cd extlib ***rake spec*** rake install ; cd .. cd do cd data_objects ***rake spec*** rake install ; cd .. cd do_mysql # || do_postgres || do_sqlite3 rake install</code></pre></div> <p>Make sure that your running specs that are passing before installing edge software.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s another tip, if your trying to learn new software&#8230; or wondering why something isn&#8217;t working for you&#8230; check the specs! They are a great place to learn just exactly how the author approaches using the libraries they write.</p> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:09:00 -0400 urn:uuid:fe6aa9b9-56dd-4902-bc07-5d6a5a15f283 Justin Reagor http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2008/07/09/request-to-all-tutorial-writers gems rspec tutorial I second this for edge software. However I don't support running the test on stable releases (aside from educational reasons anyway). I can't tell you how many times I've been burned by the fact that CPAN insists on running tests before installing the perl mysql module. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:12:54 -0400 urn:uuid:8a71cccb-2652-4db8-8e12-70be342e8fcf http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2008/07/09/request-to-all-tutorial-writers#comment-256