From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-02-17T01:25:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FileSystem 0.1.0: Beta for me, Alpha for you

Francis Hwang schrieb:
> 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.

It would be nice if you could implement it in this way. Then the code under test 
would be completely independent from your library. I once used this technique 
for a Time mock [1] and I liked it very much.

Regards,
Pit

[1] In my tests I had a lot of calls to Kernel#sleep, but I wanted them to run 
as fast as possible. So I implemented a Time mock where you could change the 
current time. In the tests, a call to sleep simply adjusted the current time 
accordingly.