From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-09-20T09:19:36+09:00
Subject: Re: generate the test data in Ruby for a c program

In article <000801c26032$47a23800$1800000a@ee.ualberta.ca>,
Maggie Xiao <mxiao@ee.ualberta.ca> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I'd like to generate the test data in Ruby for a c program and test it. Has
>anyone tried to do it? Can you give me some ideas? What do you think is the
>best way to do it ?Any reply will be highly appreciated.
>

Could you give some more details?

One guess would be that this is a standalone C program that takes some 
input on the command line, like:

> foo -name Fred -title Coder

and then does something meaningful with the input.

You could, in Ruby generate command lines like:

results = `foo -name #{name} -title #{occupation}`

Then you could check the results string...

However, without more details it's kind'a hard to say.

If you actually want to access your C code from within Ruby and then do 
all of your testing inside of Ruby you could use swig 
(http://www.swig.org)....Why do I feel like that duck in the AFLAC 
commercial?  Instead of 'AFLAC' I say 'Swig'.

Phil