From: Rein Henrichs <reinh@...>
Date: 2010-06-06T09:20:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Clearing TOPLEVEL_BINDING for reuse

On 2010-06-05 17:09:06 -0700, Intransition said:

> On Jun 5, 3:05�pm, Rein Henrichs <re...@reinh.com> wrote:
>> On 2010-06-05 11:40:25 -0700, Intransition said:
>> 
>>> Is there anyway to delete all the local and instance variables in a
>>> Binding?
>> 
>>> I've been working on a test framework and ideally I'd like the tests
>>> to run at the toplevel rather than within the scope of some class. But
>>> to do this I need to clear out the variables between each test script.
>> 
>> Binding objects are not mutable, nor would I suggest this as an
>> implementation strategy.
> 
> Any suggestions?

There are at least 8 Ruby testing frameworks (that I'm aware of). I 
would recommend examining existing implementations. Nothing I could 
suggest in this space would be as comprehensive or accurate as the open 
source prior art available to you.

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