# Helping with IronRuby **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [April 2, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-ironruby/186242 "2010-04-02T22:51:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zac\_Brown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/7c8e57/32.png) [@Zac\_Brown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zac_Brown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-ironruby/186242/1 "2010-04-02T22:51:46Z")
Hi all, I’m looking to get involved with some IronRuby development. Are there some simple janitorial tasks that I get can my feet with? Thanks, Zac Brown (zbrown), SDET Microsoft - Windows - REX Client (86/1601) ---
**Author:** ![Zac\_Brown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/7c8e57/32.png) [@Zac\_Brown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zac_Brown)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-ironruby/186242/2 "2010-04-04T04:01:14Z")
By janitorial I meant more simple bug fixing as opposed to docs and websites. I’ll look into getting a clean run of irtests. -Zac * * * From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid] on behalf of Shri B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:00 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] helping with IronRuby Hi Zac, [http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing](http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing) has a general list of ideas for contributions. You could browse that for some ideas of which are you want to contribute in. By janitorial tasks, are you saying you are more interested in things like documentation and websites? If so, you will have to coordinate with Jimmy. If you want to help with coding tasks, the first step is to get a clean run of the “irtests” command (see bottom of [http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources](http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources)). From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Zac Brown Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:46 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Ironruby-core] helping with IronRuby Hi all, I’m looking to get involved with some IronRuby development. Are there some simple janitorial tasks that I get can my feet with? Thanks, Zac Brown (zbrown), SDET Microsoft - Windows – REX Client (86/1601) ---
**Author:** ![Zac\_Brown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/7c8e57/32.png) [@Zac\_Brown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zac_Brown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-ironruby/186242/3 "2010-04-02T23:02:54Z")
Hi Zac, [http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing](http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing) has a general list of ideas for contributions. You could browse that for some ideas of which are you want to contribute in. By janitorial tasks, are you saying you are more interested in things like documentation and websites? If so, you will have to coordinate with Jimmy. If you want to help with coding tasks, the first step is to get a clean run of the “irtests” command (see bottom of [http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources](http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources)). From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Zac Brown Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:46 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Ironruby-core] helping with IronRuby Hi all, I’m looking to get involved with some IronRuby development. Are there some simple janitorial tasks that I get can my feet with? Thanks, Zac Brown (zbrown), SDET Microsoft - Windows - REX Client (86/1601) ---
**Author:** ![Zac\_Brown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/7c8e57/32.png) [@Zac\_Brown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zac_Brown)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/helping-with-ironruby/186242/4 "2010-04-04T04:38:41Z")
Here is something small you could start with: Kernel#test ([module Kernel - RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005948)) has many cases that we don’t implement yet. The implementation of this method is in Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Libraries.LCA\_RESTRICTED\Builtins\KernelOps.cs It might be possible to reuse code in IoOps.cs and FileOps.cs ti implement this method. There are some specs for the method in Merlin\External.LCA\_RESTRICTED\Languages\IronRuby\mspec\rubyspec\core\kernel\test\_specs.rb but not many. Add specs here for each case you implement. You’ll need to figure out what CRuby is doing here as the documentation is not very good. The behavior might be different between Ruby 1.8.6 and Ruby 1.9. For now implement 1.8.6 behavior since we haven’t switched to 1.9 yet and the differences seems to be minimal. If you would be interested in something bigger we can use some help in OpenSSL module. Tomas From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Zac Brown Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 6:57 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] helping with IronRuby By janitorial I meant more simple bug fixing as opposed to docs and websites. I’ll look into getting a clean run of irtests. -Zac * * * From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid] on behalf of Shri B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:00 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] helping with IronRuby Hi Zac, [http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing](http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing) has a general list of ideas for contributions. You could browse that for some ideas of which are you want to contribute in. By janitorial tasks, are you saying you are more interested in things like documentation and websites? If so, you will have to coordinate with Jimmy. If you want to help with coding tasks, the first step is to get a clean run of the “irtests” command (see bottom of [http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources](http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/modifying-the-sources)). From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Zac Brown Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:46 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Ironruby-core] helping with IronRuby Hi all, I’m looking to get involved with some IronRuby development. Are there some simple janitorial tasks that I get can my feet with? Thanks, Zac Brown (zbrown), SDET Microsoft - Windows - REX Client (86/1601)