From: Eric Christopherson Date: 2010-03-08T12:21:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Communicating with running process / acceptance-testing GUI apps On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Sean DeNigris wrote: > Hi list, > > Does anyone have a method for interacting with a running Ruby > process?  Specifically, I want to launch a Ruby app using a wxruby > GUI, and then somehow drive it from cucumber.  I tried non-Ruby > solutions like Mac applescript GUI scripting to no avail. > > Google produced a lot of info on irb and gdb, but I can't see how (if > it's even possible) to extend those techniques to what I'm attempting. > > The only thing that seemed promising was wx-nobbie, a gem that can > test wxruby apps, but it runs all tests against the same instance of > the app, which does not work for me. Do you mean you want to test the GUI component of it? I don't know anything firsthand about that, but I just noticed a book at Border's called _ Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby_.