CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Workflow

Fork, then clone the repo:

git clone [email protected]:your-username/whois-parser.git

Set up your machine:

bundle

Make sure the tests pass:

$ bundle exec rake

To propose a change/feature/patch, create your feature branch:

git checkout -b my-new-feature

Make your change. Add tests for your change. Make the tests pass:

bundle exec rake

utils/mkwhois.rb can be used to quicky generate status_available.txt and status_registered.txt files for your tests

ruby utils/mkwhois.rb google.com status_available

Commit your changes:

git commit -am 'Add some feature'

Push to your fork and submit a pull request.

Tests

To increase the chance that your pull request is accepted please make sure to write tests. Changes without corresponding tests will likely not be included as they will produce fragile code that can easily break whenever the registry changes the response format.

Some examples: 84dbdde320f31c20184bcfe5e544e8fd3cd32862, 3b6688b95e6fadcf720cc777ef4bbd2cd644e62b