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# The Ruby Spec Suite
[![Actions Build Status](https://github.com/ruby/spec/workflows/CI/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ruby/spec/actions)
-[![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/ruby/spec.svg)](https://gitter.im/ruby/spec)
The Ruby Spec Suite, abbreviated `ruby/spec`, is a test suite for the behavior of the Ruby programming language.
@@ -18,19 +17,21 @@ Every example code has a textual description, which presents several advantages:
The specs are written with syntax similar to RSpec 2.
They are run with MSpec, the purpose-built framework for running the Ruby Spec Suite.
-For more information, see the [MSpec](http://github.com/ruby/mspec) project.
+For more information, see the [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec) project.
The specs describe the [language syntax](language/), the [core library](core/), the [standard library](library/), the [C API for extensions](optional/capi) and the [command line flags](command_line/).
The language specs are grouped by keyword while the core and standard library specs are grouped by class and method.
ruby/spec is known to be tested in these implementations for every commit:
-* [MRI](http://rubyci.org/) on 30 platforms and 4 versions
+
+* [MRI](https://rubyci.org/) on 30 platforms and 4 versions
* [JRuby](https://github.com/jruby/jruby/tree/master/spec/ruby) for both 1.7 and 9.x
* [TruffleRuby](https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/tree/master/spec/ruby)
* [Opal](https://github.com/opal/opal/tree/master/spec)
+* [Artichoke](https://github.com/artichoke/spec/tree/artichoke-vendor)
-ruby/spec describes the behavior of Ruby 2.6 and more recent Ruby versions.
-More precisely, every latest stable MRI release should [pass](https://github.com/ruby/spec/actions/workflows/ci.yml) all specs of ruby/spec (2.6.x, 2.7.x, 3.0.x, etc), and those are tested in CI.
+ruby/spec describes the behavior of Ruby 3.0 and more recent Ruby versions.
+More precisely, every latest stable MRI release should [pass](https://github.com/ruby/spec/actions/workflows/ci.yml) all specs of ruby/spec (3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, etc), and those are tested in CI.
### Synchronization with Ruby Implementations
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### Specs for old Ruby versions
For older specs try these commits:
+
* Ruby 2.0.0-p647 - [Suite](https://github.com/ruby/spec/commit/245862558761d5abc676843ef74f86c9bcc8ea8d) using [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec/commit/f90efa068791064f955de7a843e96e2d7d3041c2) (may encounter 2 failures)
* Ruby 2.1.9 - [Suite](https://github.com/ruby/spec/commit/f029e65241374386077ac500add557ae65069b55) using [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec/commit/55568ea3918c6380e64db8c567d732fa5781efed)
* Ruby 2.2.10 - [Suite](https://github.com/ruby/spec/commit/cbaa0e412270c944df0c2532fc500c920dba0e92) using [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec/commit/d84d7668449e96856c5f6bac8cb1526b6d357ce3)
* Ruby 2.3.8 - [Suite](https://github.com/ruby/spec/commit/dc733114d8ae66a3368ba3a98422c50147a76ba5) using [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec/commit/4599bc195fb109f2a482a01c32a7d659518369ea)
* Ruby 2.4.10 - [Suite](https://github.com/ruby/spec/commit/bce4f2b81d6c31db67cf4d023a0625ceadde59bd) using [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec/commit/e7eb8aa4c26495b7b461e687d950b96eb08b3ff2)
* Ruby 2.5.9 - [Suite](https://github.com/ruby/spec/commit/c503335d3d9f6ec6ef24de60a0716c34af69b64f) using [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec/commit/0091e8a62e954717cd54641f935eaf1403692041)
+* Ruby 2.6.10 - [Suite](https://github.com/ruby/spec/commit/aaf998fb8c92c4e63ad423a2e7ca6e6921818c6e) using [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec/commit/5e36c684e9e2b92b1187589bba1df22c640a8661)
+* Ruby 2.7.8 - [Suite](https://github.com/ruby/spec/commit/93787e6035c925b593a9c0c6fb0e7e07a6f1df1f) using [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec/commit/1d8cf64722d8a7529f7cd205be5f16a89b7a67fd)
### Running the specs
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$ cd spec
-Clone [MSpec](http://github.com/ruby/mspec):
+Clone [MSpec](https://github.com/ruby/mspec):
$ git clone https://github.com/ruby/mspec.git ../mspec
@@ -124,6 +128,12 @@ MSpec can automatically add new top-level constants in this file with:
$ CHECK_LEAKS=save mspec ../mspec/bin/mspec file
+### Running Specs on S390x CPU Architecture
+
+Run the specs with `DFLTCC=0` if you see failing specs related to the zlib library on s390x CPU architecture. The failures can happen with the zlib library applying the patch madler/zlib#410 to enable the deflate algorithm producing a different compressed byte stream.
+
+ $ DFLTCC=0 ../mspec/bin/mspec
+
### Contributing and Writing Specs
See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/ruby/spec/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for documentation about contributing and writing specs (guards, matchers, etc).
@@ -140,10 +150,9 @@ The file `/etc/services` is required for socket specs (package `netbase` on Debi
### Socket specs from rubysl-socket
-Most specs under `library/socket` were imported from [the rubysl-socket project](https://github.com/rubysl/rubysl-socket).
+Most specs under `library/socket` were imported from the rubysl-socket project (which is no longer on GitHub).
The 3 copyright holders of rubysl-socket, Yorick Peterse, Chuck Remes and
-Brian Shirai, [agreed to relicense those specs](https://github.com/rubysl/rubysl-socket/issues/15)
-under the MIT license in ruby/spec.
+Brian Shirai, agreed to relicense those specs under the MIT license in ruby/spec.
### History and RubySpec
@@ -151,5 +160,5 @@ This project was originally born from [Rubinius](https://github.com/rubinius/rub
The revision history of these specs is available [here](https://github.com/ruby/spec/blob/2b886623/CHANGES.before-2008-05-10).
These specs were later extracted to their own project, RubySpec, with a specific vision and principles.
At the end of 2014, Brian Shirai, the creator of RubySpec, decided to [end RubySpec](http://rubinius.com/2014/12/31/matz-s-ruby-developers-don-t-use-rubyspec/).
-A couple months later, the different repositories were merged and [the project was revived](http://eregon.github.io/rubyspec/2015/07/29/rubyspec-is-reborn.html).
+A couple months later, the different repositories were merged and [the project was revived](https://eregon.github.io/rubyspec/2015/07/29/rubyspec-is-reborn.html).
On 12 January 2016, the name was changed to "The Ruby Spec Suite" for clarity and to let the RubySpec ideology rest in peace.