Re: kgio test_signal_close failed

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> Hi Eric, how to test the test files? "rake test" does nothing.

GNU make.  I just pushed the following out:

Thanks for testing :>

From 2c2befb1caa47fe3bf2e6d31dd0733956d178c87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:14:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] HACKING: add instructions for running tests

Unlike most Rubyists, I prefer GNU make to Rake.
---
 HACKING |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 004bcbb..5d485be 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -61,3 +61,18 @@ Without RubyGems (via setup.rb):
 
 It is not at all recommended to mix a RubyGems installation with an
 installation done without RubyGems, however.
+
+=== Tests
+
+We use GNU make to run tests in parallel.  test/unit/parallel didn't
+exist for old versions of Ruby before 1.9.3.  Users of GNU-based systems
+(such as GNU/Linux) usually have GNU make installed as "make" instead of
+"gmake".
+
+Running the entire test suite with 4 tests in parallel:
+
+  gmake -j4 test
+
+Running just one unit test:
+
+  gmake test/test_poll.rb