Mark and I have spoke about this before, and really what we need is to pick a .NET mocking framework and write a RSpec/Mocha-like wrapper around it, as the APIs provided by Moq, NMock, etc need some rubification. As Shri said, the DLR-itself won't help with this. Mark, does this make sense?
~js > -----Original Message----- > From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core- > boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde > Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 9:17 PM > To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Requesting contributions to IronRuby > > For mocking static CLR interfaces and abstract types, there is not much > the DLR can do. You need to create types on the fly which implement the > CLR interface you want to mock. I believe that is what most of the > popular mocking frameworks like NMock, Moq, RhinoMocks, etc do. > > You could take a look at using Test::Unit, RSpec, Bacon, etc for > specifying the expectations, and NMock, Moq, RhinoMocks for mocking CLR > interfaces. That seems to be what jtestr is doing. Would be cool to > flush out the issues involved in using the type families of frameworks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core- > boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Mark Ryall > Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 5:42 PM > To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Requesting contributions to IronRuby > > I've been promising myself for quite a while that i'd like to get > involved in the challenge of adding an implementation of mocking and > stubbing for CLR objects to ironruby. > > It'd be really cool to have something equivalent to jtestr for .net > development - mocks and stubs are one of the essential missing > ingredients. I've worked on a number of java projects now where all > of the tests were written in ruby (some MRI+selenium for acceptance > tests but others jtestr for unit and integration tests) - it's a very > gentle and sensible way to introduce of ruby to 'the enterprise'. That > and using rake (on top of msbuild) for building .net applications > which seems to be becoming increasingly popular (such as fluent > nhibernate). > > Given the way interop works and how generally unfamilar I am with how > the DLR works, perhaps it'd be diving into the deepest end first and I > might drown but i'd be keen to at least do some remote pairing (skype, > vnc, gobby, whatever - i'm in melbourne, australia) with anyone who's > interested in trying to drive out some specific tasks. > > Mark. > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Shri Borde <shri.bo...@microsoft.com> > wrote: > > We are getting closer to the V1 release of IronRuby which is planned > for > > summer this year. The implementation has become fairly complete and > usable > > in a lot of scenarios. > > > > > > > > Over the last few months, we have also improved our processes to make > it > > easier for the community to contribute to the project. This includes > moving > > the sources to GIT, pushing the sources to GIT daily from our > internal repo, > > adding shortcuts and scripts to make the dev environment easy to use, > having > > the Microsoft team work out of GIT, and finally adding information on > > http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/. Many folks are able to > build and > > run the tests easily. > > > > > > > > This opens up the opportunity for more of you to contribute to > IronRuby and > > help make the V1 release be more complete and solid. If you have > ideas of > > your own, go for it by all means. If you are looking for suggestions, > I have > > added a few ideas at > http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing. > > There are easy tasks like fixing RubySpec bugs and difficult tasks > like > > porting a C# sample. If you are interested in any of the tasks, let > us know > > and we will do our best to help you get started. > > > > > > > > Every little bit helps, so don't worry if you are not sure how much > time you > > can commit, if you are not sure how hard the tasks will be, etc. I > would > > love to see more people signed up for tasks in the "Who is working on > what" > > section. There are six names there right now. Can we get to a dozen? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Shri > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ironruby-core mailing list > > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
