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@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Tests are good, but slow tests make development slow, so we make tests faster (in parallel) with GNU make (instead of Rake) and avoiding RubyGems. -Users of GNU-based systems (such as GNU/Linux) usually have GNU make installed -as "make" instead of "gmake". +Users of GNU-based systems (such as GNU/Linux) usually have GNU make +installed as "make" instead of "gmake". Since we don't load RubyGems by default, loading Rack properly requires setting up RUBYLIB to point to where Rack is located. Not loading @@ -57,11 +57,18 @@ programming experience will come in handy (or be learned) here. === Documentation -We use RDoc 2.4.x with Darkfish for documentation as much as possible, +We use RDoc 2.5.x with Darkfish for documentation as much as possible, if you're on Ruby 1.8 you want to install the latest "rdoc" gem. Due to the lack of RDoc-to-manpage converters we know about, we're writing manpages in Markdown and converting to troff/HTML with Pandoc. +Please wrap documentation at 72 characters-per-line or less (long URLs +are exempt) so it is comfortably readable from terminals. + +When referencing mailing list posts, use +"http://mid.gmane.org/$MESSAGE_ID" if possible since the Message-ID +remains searchable even if Gmane becomes unavailable. + === Ruby/C Compatibility We target Ruby 1.8.6+, 1.9 and will target Rubinius as it becomes |