[ruby-talk:00659] Re: Your wish is fulfilled (erhm, almost ;-)

Hi, 

In message "[ruby-talk:00655] Your wish is fulfilled (erhm, almost ;-)"
    on 99/08/12, Clemens Hintze <[e-mail]> writes:

>I suddenly have an enlightment ;-) So I have found a way how you can
>build the reports from templates. I have followed your hint. And here
>it comes:

Wow! I always feel freshness in your ideas :-)

>To build a report template, you can use strings and insert some special
>substitution modifier. These are currently...
>
>	%C   -- Category number
<...>
>	%{<cond>,<text>}  -- If <cond> is "0", then <text> will be
>	                     skipped. <cond> may be e.g. `%S'.
>	%(<cond>,<text1>,<text2>)  -- If <cond> is "1", <text1> will be
>	                              substituted into the template.
>	                              However, if <cond> is not "1", 	
>    	                              <text2> will be substituted.
>
>With that you can build you own reports. BTW: All standard reports are
>build with these templates :-)
>
>Example:
>	"Test%(%NT,,s) finished (totally %NT test%(%NT,,s)"+
>	"%{%NF,; %NF test%(%NF,,s) failed})"
>
>	Would substitute to the following reports depending of the
>	current state of `ntests' and `nfails'.


Oh! `%{}' and `%()' is smart. I have no objection. 

>Furthermore I have now introduced the `section' command. Now you can
>group you tests like that:
>
>	:
>	start_tests
>	
>	section 1,"Ruby tests"
>
>	section 2,"Base tests"
>
>	check "assignment"
>
>	a=[]; a[0] ||= "bar";
>	ok(a[0] == "bar")

>	:

>What do you think?

Well, my favorite is hierarchy by ruby block because the semantics is
clear and also it can be easily indented. But your proposal is not
bad, I can agree it.

>I will doing some documentation for `rd2html' before I release the new
>version.

I'm happy to hear it :-)

Today, another version of rd2html was posted. Check it out:

ftp://ftp.netlab.co.jp/pub/lang/ruby/in.coming/rdtool-0.1.2.tar.gz

>LONG LIVE RUBY!

ditto!

-- gotoken