srclib-ruby uses Loren Segal's YARD for Ruby analysis. A git subtree of the Sourcegraph fork of YARD is in the yard/ subdirectory. Commits to that subtree should be regularly sent upstream to the github.com/sourcegraph/yard fork.

The make test target analyzes sample repositories in testdata/case and checks that the actual output matches the expected output (which is committed to the repository).

The sample repositories are git submodules, so you'll have to git submodule init && git submodule update the first time you want to run the tests.

The output of the analyzer differs a bit depending on the version of Ruby you have installed. The expected output was generated using Ruby 2.2.2. If you're finding that your output differs from the expected, try both generating the stdlib index and running the tests with that version of Ruby. If you're using rvm, this means running the following commands:

# in case you built the stdlib index using a different version of Ruby (e.g.,
# your system Ruby)
rm -rf ruby-2.2.2/.yardoc

# rebuild the stdlib index using Ruby 2.2.2 (run `rvm install 2.2.2` if you
# haven't already installed Ruby 2.2.2)
rvm 2.2.2 do make stdlib

# install gem deps for the test repos using Ruby 2.2.2
rvm 2.2.2 do make test-dep

# run the tests with Ruby 2.2.2
rvm 2.2.2 do make test

The same applies when you're generating new expected test output (after making an improvement to the code, for example).

If you're having trouble getting your output to match the expected, post an issue.

Windows with Cygwin installed, srclib-ruby has been tested with

CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW Diana 2.0.4(0.287/5/3) 2015-06-09 12:20 i686 Cygwin

• Download and install Ruby 2.2.2 using RubyInstaller. The x64 version has worked successfully. Make sure that ruby.exe is included into your path.
• Download Development Kit from RubyInstaller. The x64 version has worked successfully. Extract self-extracting archive somewhere (say C:\rbdevkit), switch to this directory.
• Run ruby dk.rb init to generate config.yml
• Edit config.yml and add a line like - RUBY-INSTALLATION-DIR, for example - C:/ruby22-x64
• Run ruby dk.rb install
• Run gem install bundler -v 1.6.9, using 1.6.x is important because srclib-ruby is supposed to work with 1.6.x.
• Run gem install gem-exefy - this tool replaces .bat files in RubyInstaller with .exe. Ensure that you have installed DevKit as described above, otherwise gem wouldn't work.
• Run gem exefy --all to convert .bat files to .exe in RubyInstaller (for example, it will create bundle.exe and remove bundle.bat
• Now, you are ready to run make in your srclib-ruby directory. It will take some time while Ruby downloads required files and then Yard builts cache of Ruby 2.2.2 files.

Ruby may not provide default OpenSSL certificate authorities file, thus srclib-ruby may unable to communicate with external sites. Here is the workaround - see The Manual Way there.

• Check whether Ruby stdlib works
• Check whether xrefs work
• Add Travis-CI test for src test test cases and YARD specs