Dave Thomas
1/8/2005 2:45:00 PM
On Jan 7, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Jeff Wood wrote:
> I read once that Dave Thomas is/was working on a port of Fit ( or
> Fitnesse ) to Ruby. Where has that project gone? I haven't heard
> anything recent ...
Ward asked me to port his Java version to Ruby, which I did a long time
back. At that point, he was interested in keeping all implementations
of it the same, and so was very keen that the port was basically a
transliteration of the original source. That lead to some really ugly
Ruby code, which was depressing to work with.
On top of that, Fit had a very Java-centric interface: the way the
column headings were interpreted, for example, made sense in Java but
wasn't particularly workable in dynamically-typed languages such as
Python and Ruby. There were workarounds, which Brian and I experimented
with, but again it wasn't particularly pleasant.
I handed the code over a while back. I believe it should be available
from the Fit project -- you might want to ask Jim Little.
Cheers
Dave