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Parallel testing of Ruby 1.9 and 1.8

Manfred, Apr 03 at 15:48

It’s actually really easy. Here’s how I did it.

$ svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk ruby19
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/ruby19
$ make
~ Get coffee
$ sudo make install

Now you have a fresh and cutting edge build of Ruby on your system. Time to install Rubygems.

$ wget "http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/34638/rubygems-1.1.0.tgz"
$ tar -xvzf rubygems-1.1.0.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.1.0
$ sudo /opt/ruby19/bin/ruby setup.rb

Finally we need ZenTest, because it includes autotest.

$ /opt/ruby19/bin/gem install ZenTest

Now that we have all the prerequisites we just start two autotests.