 | Level: Introductory Pat Eyler (pat.eyler@gmail.com), Freelance Writer, Seattle Ruby Brigade
24 May 2005 This tutorial will build a simple Ruby application following Test First principles. It will start with an overview of the Test::Unit library that ships with Ruby then move on to writing tests from a specification and writing code to fulfill those test. It will touch on tools like ZenTest and unit_diff, and on the process of refactoring. The tutorial will be built around a single programming example.
Prerequisites
To complete this tutorial, you need a basic understanding of the Ruby programming language, including the ability to write small programs. If you're on a Linux® or Mac OS X machine, you're almost certainly covered for the first prerequisite. If your distribution doesn't ship with Ruby, it's easy to build from source, but you should let the distributor know that you want it in the next release. If you're working on a Microsoft® Windows® system, it has a nice one-click installer.
System requirements
Ruby V1.8.2
Formats html, pdf
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