From: jrb3@...
Date: 2003-12-12T01:58:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas for replacing $0==__FILE__

Steve Lumos saith:

> $0 == __FILE__ idiom

> Do people really consider this idiom to be *that* useful? Most of the
> times I've seen it used, it wraps either examples (better done in
> separate files, you can have more than one and more complex), or tests
> (*much* better done with Test::Unit).

I've found it very useful for my own unit-testing using Test::Unit.  Now,
being a Ruby nuby, I haven't absorbed what might have come before about
this, but I set up my unit-testable Ruby library files as executables --
invoke them directly to run the unit tests, and the above idiom guards the
test code.

Others are welcome to point me to current community thought (and working
code :-) on how to do this.  This being Ruby not Perl, there should I
guess be only One Way To Do This. ;-)

        Joseph Beckenbach
        lead XP tester, Eidogen Inc.