From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2006-01-16T23:16:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Resetting ruby

On 1/16/06, List Recv <listrecv@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a fast way to "reset" Ruby.  That is, to reset the
> interpreter back to a fresh state, or, even better, a fresh state +
> keeping some required ruby-gems.
>
> My goal is to make a continuos test runner, and avoid the overhead of
> having to restart ruby and require the gems each times.

I've got code for this kind of testrunner; no specific optimizations,
though.  It's a plain testrunner using pipes for communication and a
fork to separate out the execution.  There's something clumsy about it
- I don't remember what it was.

If you're dead set on doing this inside a single Ruby process, this
won't help - if you want an easy way out, I'll try to dig up the code
- it wasn't in the obvious places :-/

Eivind.