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authorSteve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>2015-02-18 06:50:11 +0000
committerSteve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>2015-02-18 06:50:11 +0000
commit3f8e01aac08e4a6d4b5352780359345e253e463b (patch)
tree4e8c222d3ce265add630c2bea6a25c2066d97658
parent50a2fd6c8949894e5e6207cb616f6d40a0afa944 (diff)
Moved the list of dependencies to the README file.
We only have two dependencies: * The curb-gem for HTTP-testing. * A queue-related gem, be it beanstalkd or redis.
-rw-r--r--HTTP-TESTING14
-rw-r--r--README16
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/HTTP-TESTING b/HTTP-TESTING
deleted file mode 100644
index 492a222..0000000
--- a/HTTP-TESTING
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-
-To avoid issues with timeouts we've written our HTTP/HTTPS protocol testers using
-the curb rubgem.
-
-Upon a Debian GNU/Linux system this may be installed via:
-
- apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev rubygems1.8
- gem install curb
-
-If you prefer to install from source you can find the project code
-hosted on github:
-
- https://github.com/taf2/curb
-
diff --git a/README b/README
index cd457b8..26cb2f7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -61,6 +61,22 @@ is documented in that same file.
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+The software is written in Ruby and will work under either Ruby 1.8,
+or Ruby 1.9.1. The software has not yet been tested upon Ruby 2.x, JRuby,
+or similar.
+
+Dependencies, beyond ruby, are limited to the following gems:
+
+* For HTTP/HTTPS testing: curb
+* For communication with the queue: redis / beanstalkd-client
+
+You may install either redis or beanstalkd as your queue, and install
+the corresponding gem. There is no need to install both.
+
+
Documentation
-------------