Automatically check compatibility of gems

This may be a crazy idea, but why not allow users to post the source url to particular gems, then isitruby19 can automatically pull the source code from the repository (subversion, git, etc.), run the tests for it and post the results of whether the tests pass or not.

This would probably give a basic view of whether any effort has been made for the gem to be compatible with Ruby 1.9 to begin with. There would probably be some difficulty trying the tests on multiple platforms.

Going one step further, isitruby19 could pull the source occasionally if the tests previously fail and see if there is any improvement.

Just a thought! ;-)

Thanks

We did think about this when we started the project – unfortunately we’ve been too busy to take it any further. It’s certainly something we plan on revisiting at some point however.

Maybe you could ask runcoderun to do the testing.