The README for hobo is in hobo/README. However, you're probably more interested in hobo/CHANGES-1.4.txt or http://cookbook.hobocentral.net ### Unit tests export HOBODEV=`pwd` for f in dryml hobo_support hobo_fields hobo ; do cd $f ; bundle install ; cd .. ; done rake test ### Integration tests see README in integration_tests/agility ### Smoke test This test is not super important. It's important that this test be run just before gems are released, but we won't see much benefit if people other than the maintainer run this test. Prerequisites: RVM, wget. Creates and uses the hobo-smoke rvm gemset. unset HOBODEV export HOBODEV cd integration_tests ./smoke_test.sh