From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T22:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: How to unit test CGI methods?

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:08:35PM +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> I've added a number of methods to the CGI class that I'd like to unit 
> test, but CGI.new insists on prompting for parameter pairs, which 
> nullifies automation. Currently, I'm using an unelegant work-around by 
> keeping all the new methods in a CGIMethods class that I can test. I 
> then have a set of wrappers in the actual CGI extension. But it feels 
> wrong.
> 
> Is there any way to automate the parameter pairs for CGI.new?

Have a look at the source of ruby-fcgi from RAA (lib/fcgi.rb, class FCGI).
It subclasses CGI to generate a new class like CGI but which gets its
parameters from elsewhere.

It would save hassle if CGI had a class method to do this though :-)

Cheers,

Brian.