On 29 June 2018 at 22:53, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:

Presumably someone is working on Pharo Exercism (did I notice Ben or Hilaire asking about the tonel format for it?)

Is it possible for someone to put a comment in the repo for it - so we can coordinate effort? I��m assuming that someone can at least get hello world working as an example?

It would also be handy if someone who understands how it works, can give a quick explanation here - as I would offer to suggest it as something for the next UK Smalltalk gathering next month. I��m assuming the cli submits files to some travis runner and you get results back - and we just have to fill something in that will interpret those files and launch a command line pharo to get the results (presumably handling walkbacks in a way that the results get fed back). And then I��m guess we have a pharo add-in that would let you do this from the image some way too?

Tim

I don't know much or even how I ended up tuning in on it - but of several of these sorts of initiatives I've heard about, Exercism looks like a good one.

I haven't put any thought into exercises, but have been thinking about infrastructure.��

Here is some discussion about making a code exporter to be able to use the command line tool to interact with the server.

https://github.com/exercism/pharo/issues/6#issuecomment-398346884

I've been looking at how the command line tool communicates with the server��

to determine how hard it would be too hard to write a Pharo direct interface to their server.

I wasn't planning to share my experiments yet, but since it may be a while before I get a chance to extend it further,

perhaps it interests someone...

https://github.com/bencoman/pharogui-exercism

cheers -ben