From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-23T04:56:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Restore Kernel.binding to a previous state

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Hans Sjunnesson wrote:

>> Ben
>
> Helpful - yes, in finding out that using eval might not be what I'm
> after.
> I thought, at first, that a binding housed the entirety of a running
> ruby process' context.
>
> I'm wanting to run ruby snippets like the below:
>
> require 'rake'
> default = task :default do
>  # do stuff
> end
> default.invoke
>
> But for my problem, I might be better off using Kernel::system, and
> invoking ruby in an external process, even though I'd really like my
> little code-snippet to be able to access, for instance, the Logger
> I've set up in my queue-system.
> I might get away with that by modifying your BindingFactory to pass
> objects into the created binding as local variables. But stuff like
> rake modify the running context in more ways than setting local
> variables.
>
>

why don't you fork?

-a
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