From: shasckaw <shasckaw@...>
Date: 2004-02-10T01:54:58+09:00
Subject: Re: running a class from the base class

It is hard to understand what you really want, but I'll try to help.

Perhaps you just need to use some meta-class programming:

class SpecificArchitecture < BaseArchitecture
	def SpecificArchitecture.main(args)
		...
	end
end

And then you just do:
begin
	SpecificArchitecture.main(ARGV)
end

It means that you call the main function without instanciation.

I think UnitTest do it another way, but I currently don't know how.

Lio

tim wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have examined the test object from the test unit stuff and i cannot 
> work out how the base class executes the main test object... i want to 
> efectively do the same thing. Can anybody give me some tips on how to do 
> this. Effectively i want to:
> 
> class SpecificArchitecture << BaseArchitecture
>   def main(args)
>     ....
>   end
> end
> 
> And when the file is run it just figures out how to make the object and 
> call into main. I currently have a number of derived classes that all 
> have something like:
> 
> begin
>   xx = SpecificArchitecture.new()
>   xx.main(ARGV)
> end
> 
> at the end. Which i would like to remove.
> 
> thanks
> Tim
>