How to Begin Developing Ruby Core

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Covers how to run and contribute to CRuby’s test suite with concrete commands and checks: use make test to build and run the bundled Ruby tests, run make check as a language-level guard before submitting patches, and exercise C-extension and C API tests via the capi test targets. Shows how to run RubySpec compatibility tests (ruby/spec) for 2.3/2.4, how to pass env vars and use -j4 for parallel runs, and where to file failing-test issues.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:39How to contribute
3. 3:17Make tests
4. 5:36Write tests
5. 6:25Compatibility

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