dual pipes?

[Trans]

Is there a way to fork a seperate ruby process (i.e. a clean
environment) and get output back on two differnent "channels"?

I'm trying to create a test runner that runs suites in seperate forks
to prevent possible clashing between required libs. I've hacked a
version with popen where the test results are marshalled across the
pipe, but if the code I'm testing prints anything to stdout then the
marshal dump is spoiled. I suppose I could put some sort of markup
around the marshal dump to isolate it, but it still seems very hackish.
A a secondar pipe would be better, or perhaps I can redirect the tests
code output elsewehere?

I'm not very familiar with these techniques, so help here is extra
appreciated.

Thanks,
T.

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

Is there a way to fork a seperate ruby process (i.e. a clean environment)
and get output back on two differnent "channels"?

might want to check out my slave lib... it sets up a drb object in a child
process in a few lines of code. you could use it to run your tests and get
objects back in the normal drb way.

cheers.



-a
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[Trans]

That's an interesting solution. I noticed mention of unix socets in the
source code. Is drb cross-platform?

T.

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

That's an interesting solution. I noticed mention of unix socets in the
source code. Is drb cross-platform?

probably not that way... if you look at the source i imagine you could tweak
to use loopback or something... i didn't think of that at the time...

cheers.

-a
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