From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-07-15T17:22:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Has anyone combined Test::Unit with CGI?

Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote in message news:<20020715023521.GH24646@panoptic.com>...
> Just as it auto-magically
> runs the test runner by simply requiring 'test/unit' and defining
> a class that inherits from Test::Unit::TestCase, I'm thinking if
> you require 'cgi' -- well, if a class named "CGI" is defined -- that
> the Test::Unit test runner generates its output as a HTML
> document.

Would something like this work:

print "Content-type: text/html\r\n"
print "\r\n"
print "<pre>"

.... run tests, do output here ...

print "</pre>"

It would make your shell run test output uglier, but I think this
should work online.  Alternatively, you could have two seperate entry
points to the application, one of which was a cgi:

run_my_tests.rb
cgi_run_my_tests.rb

I don't think it's simple to autodetect whether a script is running
within a cgi enviroment.  Look at the code for the QueryExtension
module within cgi for the enviroment checking code.

~ Patrick