= rubygems-test - commands and facilities for automated rubygems testing and reporting.

== For users

This installs three major features:

• a 'gem test' command.
• the ability to test your gems on installation, and uninstall them if they fail testing.
• A facility to upload your test results to rubygems.org (coming soon, see http://github.com/bluepojo/gem-testers)

=== .gemrc

You can insert several things in your .gemrc to make things simpler. These all live in the 'test_options' subsection, e.g.:

test_options: auto_test_on_install: true test_on_install: true install_development_dependencies: true test_development_dependencies: false upload_results: false force_install: false force_uninstall_on_failure: false

All options are false by default. For some of them, if the value is unknown or +false+, you will be prompted when it is required for testing.

The options:

auto_test_on_install:: runs the unit tests when 'gem install' is invoked. test_on_install:: offer to test on install in general. 'auto_test_on_install' overrides this. install_development_dependencies:: automatically install the development dependencies when testing. This is recommended. test_development_dependencies:: recursively test dev dependencies installed by rubygems-test. This can significantly increase the time it takes to install a gem. upload_results:: upload results to http://gem-testers.org. upload_service_url:: Set to a URL, it will upload to that service instead. force_install:: always install, even on test failures. force_uninstall_on_failure:: force uninstall when tests fail.

== For gem developers

Want your gem to be testable?

• Create (and add to your files section in your specification!) a '.gemtest' empty file. This is what signals the rubygems-test engine to process your gem as testable.
• Ensure 'rake test' works and doesn't wipe out filesystems, databases, etc. Move those tests to another task.
• Be sure to include your Rakefile in your gem, along with your tests.
• Be sure to note any development dependencies that will be required for executing your rakefile and your tests in your gemspec. They will be installed as a part of the testing process.

== Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

== Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Erik Hollensbe and Josiah Kiehl. See LICENSE for details.