On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Andreas J. Koenig
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:23:00 -0400, "David Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> said:
>
> > Though I will say that from experience, mocking a home directory isn't
> > the easiest to do and always get right.
>
> adduser ?
Funny. No, I'd *really* prefer if test scripts didn't try to add new
user directories. :-)
My "standard" approach is to have a test setup routine that (a)
creates a temp directory and (b) mocks File::HomeDir to make sure that
all it's methods return the temp directory. The only real "trick" is
making sure that $INC{File/Homedir.pm} gets set before anything might
possibly load File::HomeDir.
I should probably just wrap it up into a Test::MockHomeDir module.
David
