# Rake-tester-0.0.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tester-0-0-1/177370>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 15, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tester-0-0-1/177370 "2009-10-15T22:01:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![fstroehle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/8797f3/32.png) [@fstroehle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fstroehle)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-tester-0-0-1/177370/1 "2009-10-15T22:01:57Z")

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Hi folks,

I just released the first version of rake-tester, an extension of the  
[rake-compiler](http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler) gem that allows the testing of Ruby C extension parts  
with C testing frameworks, e.g. [cmockery](http://code.google.com/p/cmockery/).

This allows you to test the pure-C parts of your Ruby extensions in C.

Features include:

- Automatic compiling and running of test suites
- Support for running single test suites with valgrind or gdb

Limitations are:

- Test suites can only be compiled for the current platform,  
not for cross-compile targets (but you couldn’t run them on  
your machine anyways…)

The project’s home is [GitHub - karottenreibe/rake-tester: rake-tester is an extension to the rake-compiler that maintains C test suites](http://www.github.com/karottenreibe/rake-tester)

Greetz!