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I'm disappointed with FIT

I have just spent the better part of a day trying to start a small project with FIT, working in Ruby. My experience has been especially frustrating, not because my environment was bad, but because after all the work it took to fix my environment, FIT disappointed me in the end.

Just to paint the picture, I had to install XCode 2.2 so I could install readline so I could install postgresql so I could run Rails. After four hours of troubleshooting, Googling and fixing, I was ready to run tests with FIT.

I checked out the latest FIT from CVS, tried to run it, and no love. I ended up finding a defect related to a refactoring gone wrong. Didn't anyone run the tests?!

Finally, I tried to run my test page and FIT was downright rude.

Unable to parse input. Input ignored.

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Can't find tag: td
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/../lib/fit/parse.rb:97:in `initialize'
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/../lib/fit/parse.rb:102:in `new'
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/../lib/fit/parse.rb:102:in `initialize'
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/../lib/fit/parse.rb:102:in `new'
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/../lib/fit/parse.rb:102:in `initialize'
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/../lib/fit/file_runner.rb:46:in `new'
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/../lib/fit/file_runner.rb:46:in `process'
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/../lib/fit/file_runner.rb:20:in `run'
/Users/jbrains/Library/Ruby/fit/bin/fit.rb:9

    def test_parse_exception
      begin
        p = Parse.new 'leader
one
two
three
four
trailer'
        fail 'Expected ParseException not thrown.'
      rescue ParseException => e
        assert_equal 17, e.error_offset
        assert_equal "Can't find tag: td", e.message
      end
    end