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The short tutorial how to put an rpm file created with gem2rpm in compliance is here: http://lukas.zapletalovi.com/2011/01/how-to-prepare-gemfile-package-for.html
Testsuite execution
The most, if not all gems contains their test suite, which is commonly executed during build. This might be in most cases achieved by running rake task such as:
%check rake spec
However this has some cavities. The problem is mainly that Rakefile usually contains not just the "spec" or "test" task for test suite execution, but also packaging tasks etc. These tasks usually depends on other gems, such as "Hoe". This brings in unnecessary dependencies and polution. Therefore, please prefer to execute the test suite as follows:
Test::Unit
RUBYOPT="I%{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/lib Itest" testrb test/test_*
MiniTest
RUBYOPT="I%{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/lib Itest" ruby -e "Dir.glob('test/**/test_*').each {|t| require t}"
RSpec
RUBYOPT="I%{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/lib Ispec" spec spec/
Additional notes
If the test suite has more dependencies, RUBYOPT can additionally enforce usage of RubyGems. This apply for all test frameworks mentioned above.
RUBYOPT="rubygems I%{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/lib Ispec" spec spec/
Why? Just adding "BR: rubygem(hoe)" and executing $ rake test" is much simpler and easier to maintain. Also using $rake check is useful because it can check if the Rakefile itself is valid or not. Please avoid such comprecated and unneeded craft as much as possible which makes spec file less readable and less maintainable. Note that BuildRequires != Requires. Adding BuildRequires does not add "runtime" dependency. If running $ rake check requires additional packages, please try to add them to Fedora project when possible. It is more useful than resorting to unusual way. - 2011-02-01 UTC 12:45 Mamoru
By the way for rspec it seems that some testsuite need rspec 1, and others need
rspec 2. So should we rename rspec 2 to rubygem-rspec2 and try new review request?
(And again, if some testsuite needs rspec 2 for %check, we should package it, not try to avoid
using it) - Mamoru
2011-02-01 UTC 13:15 vondruch: I have nothing against adding required packages into Fedora, but I am against package pollution. Packages such as Hoe, Bundler, Rubyforge, they are useful for developer. Useful if you want to have every development dependency or create gem. They should be of course available in Fedora. But requiring them because you would like to be sure that test suite passes? It is pain.
If you want to test something in mock and the package your test "depends" on is not available in repository yet, then you are doing nothing else than installing manually packages for mock. If you require rake, it brings in immediately also dependency on RubyGems which means you have immediatelly polluted your load path with libraries you don't know. This makes execution of test suite as fragile as my magic commands.
I even don't want to mention test suites I met in recent time, which tried to install their dependencies during test suite execution. This is plain wrong.