From: patrick-may@... (Patrick May)
Date: 2002-08-08T09:45:20+09:00
Subject: CGI testing

> Norman Makoto Su wrote:
>
> Is there a way to create a CGI object with its key, value
> parameters already initialized?

NARF is a fork of cgi that I'm working on.  One of our goals is to
make cgi easy to test.  The api works this way:

CGI.process{ |cgi|

}

yields a cgi for use.  To test, you can do

CGI.process( :out => StringIO.new,
             :params  => { "key"    => "value"   },
             :cookies => { "cookie" => "monster" },
             :session => { "akey"   => "value"   } ){ |cgi|

}

Does this seem like a nice api for testing a cgi?

NARF is obtainable via CVS at sourceforge; our project page is

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/narf-lib/

The code is near ready for an alpha release; I expect to release
sometime in late August - mid September.  There are api differences,
so NARF wouldn't be a drop in replacement for cgi.rb.  Just wanted to
let you know what we were working on :-)

Let me know what you think of the api,

~ Patrick