👋 Want to give us feedback on Dependabot, or contribute to it? That's great - thank you so much!
- Go right ahead and create an issue, whatever it is. There are no stupid questions, no required formats, and we're always happy to help, whatever it is!
- If you'd rather talk to us in private you can email us on support@dependabot.com.
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add tests for it. This is important so we don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
- Send a pull request. The tests will run on it automatically, so don't worry if you couldn't get them running locally.
Getting set up to run all of the tests on Dependabot isn't as simple as we'd like it to be - sorry about that. Dependabot needs to shell out to multiple different languages to correctly update dependency files, which makes things a little complicated.
Assuming you're working on a single language, the best thing to do is just to install Ruby and the language you're working on as follows:
- Install rbenv (a Ruby version manager)
- Install the latest Ruby
- Install Bundler with
gem install bundler(this is Ruby's package manager) - Install Dependabot's Ruby dependencies with
bundle install - Install the language dependencies for whatever languages you're working on (see how we do it in CI)
- Run the tests for the file you're working on with
bundle exec rspec spec/dependabot/file_updaters/elixir/(for example). They should be green (although might need an internet connection).
There's a good description of the project's layout in our README, but if you're struggling to understand how anything works please don't hesitate to create an issue.