rspec WIP

[CKolkey]

experimental RPC test suite

[deril]

It looks nice. But I am not sure that we need to bring another language to the codebase, which is needed to be supported.

[CKolkey]

@deril if this was in common lisp, you would have an entirely different attitude :P

[star-szr]

I ran out of steam contributing test coverage a while back because some things seemed to be untestable (sorry I would have to dig that out I don’t recall the exact issue), so I would be very interested if this makes things easier/smoother to test!

[CKolkey]

All good, man, I appreciate what you did regardless :)

Yeah, using ruby has a few advantages here:

• robust git gem to verify correctness
• non-async runtime
• robust stdlib for managing child processes/filesystem stuff
• rspec is a great testing framework

And of course... i thought it would be interesting to use RPC to test neovim. Thats probably the only real reason hahaha.

I guess the downside is that people would have to write tests in ruby, but it's basically just me doing this anyways so... whatever. I like ruby 🤷‍♂️

Oh, and you can only really do E2E tests, but I think thats ok. I already unit test lua stuff when it's hard to get "correct", which wouldn't change.