From: Max Russell <thedossone@...>
Date: 2006-11-18T00:42:37+09:00
Subject: Metaprogammatically define methods.

I'm writing a harness for some tests that use watir. Rather than having 
to boilerplate code in the definition of each test like
def test_1
   load test1
end

I want to read the testnames in from a file which will be easier for the 
user. What I'd like to do is something along this structure (which I 
adapted from a really good blog in metaprogramming 
http://invisibleblocks.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/ruby-meta-programming-and-watir/):

testlist = Array.new

File.open('readme.txt', 'r') do |eachline|
	while (line = eachline.gets)
	testlist << line
	end
end
#puts testlist

testlist.each { |entry|
	code = <<METHOD_TEMPLATE
		def test_#{entry}()
			puts "testing #{entry}"
		end
METHOD_TEMPLATE
}


and then call each method I've defined. However, I'm not sure I'm going 
about this the correct way.

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