From e5409a45b414f7fdc637ddc73cb6ca82aa3da083 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Kemp Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 06:50:11 +0000 Subject: 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. --- HTTP-TESTING | 14 -------------- README | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 HTTP-TESTING 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 ------------- -- cgit v1.2.1