From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-02-16T23:56:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FileSystem 0.1.0: Beta for me, Alpha for you


On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:49 AM, gabriele renzi wrote:

> Francis Hwang ha scritto:
>> Greetings!
>> Next down my non-stop pipeline of absolutely necessary libraries that 
>> only I seem to need: FileSystem, a library that will mock out File, 
>> FileUtils, Dir, and other file-dependent built-in classes. It aims to 
>> simulate an entire file-system in memory for the purposes of testing.
>> http://rubyforge.org/projects/filesystem/
>
> first: this seem incredibly cool.

Thanks! It's already been pretty helpful for me, hopefully it'll be 
useful to others too.

> second: would'nt something like "FS::Mock"  or "test/filesystem" be a 
> better name? when I first saw this on rubyforge I thought it was some 
> kind of VFS :)

I think it's related to how you're supposed to access the lib in your 
live code. The name "FileSystem" to me seems less distracting in 
production code than something like "FS::Mock" ... It's only being 
mocked out in your tests.

I'm not 100% happy with the current form of access either: Typing 
"FileSystem.get_file" when you really just want "File" is sort of 
cumbersome. But it just seemed like the least broken thing I could go 
forward with while I figured out something else. When we talked about 
this at Ruby-NYC a few weeks ago, Patrick was saying I could write a 
file to change the definitions of File, FileUtils, Dir, etc. Maybe 
that'll be the way to go.

Anyway, I'm very very open to suggestions regarding the name and/or how 
to access it.

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/