From: Jim Knowlton <jknowlton525@...>
Date: 2007-08-26T09:15:08+09:00
Subject: Ruby access to Win Forms application

I am a QA Engineer implementing a Ruby-based test framework to test
the applications in my organization...the issue I have is about 20% of
what we do is Windows Forms (.NET) applications...can I use Win32OLE
for this, or would I need to use something like Ruby .NET or
IronRuby?  Basically the idea of the application under test is that it
makes a socket connection to a server, then the server passes messages
to it.  When a message is passed of a particular type, a "screen pop"
is generated.  So what I want to do in a Ruby test is to:

1.  Set up a mock of the server and establish connection with the
application.
2.  Send the application a message which should result in a screen
pop.
3.  Verify the screen pop came up.

Anyway...any advice on this is greatly appreciated.  I've done some
Ruby work but am a newbie as it pertains to using it to access
Windows.

Jim