From: Sy Ali <sy1234@...>
Date: 2006-05-15T10:24:10+09:00
Subject: Columnization of text, using text-reform

Ok, I got text-hyphen and text-reform installed[1], and I looked at
the test case for text-reform.  Yes, that's a great way to start
learning stuff.

I also found a way to adapt it to my uses![2]  This is a major
victory.  Except..

I have no idea how to break it free from test/unit

It has to do with these two things, I'm sure of it.  I know they set
up the r. in the r.format statements.. but I don't know what's going
on, what they're called or how to learn more about them.  =)

attr_reader :r
@r = Text::Reform.new


[1] http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=294
[2] http://jrandomhacker.info/Sls


The working script is:

$LOAD_PATH.unshift "../lib" if __FILE__ == $0

require 'test/unit'
require 'text/reform'

class Test__Text_Reform < Test::Unit::TestCase

  attr_reader :r
  def setup
    @r = Text::Reform.new
  end

  def test_abiglongtext

filename1    = "This is a long filename"
description1 = "desc"
filename2    = "Filename"
description2 = "This is a long description"
filename3    = "This is a long filename"
description3 = "This is a particularly long description"

output = ""
output <<          "------------------------\n"
output << r.format("[[[[[[[[[[[  [[[[[[[[[[[", filename1, description1)
output <<          "------------------------\n"
output << r.format("[[[[[[[[[[[  [[[[[[[[[[[", filename2, description2)
output <<          "------------------------\n"
output << r.format("[[[[[[[[[[[  [[[[[[[[[[[", filename3, description3)
output <<          "------------------------\n"

puts output

	end
end