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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gordon, I’m a bit confused about what you’re trying to do … let me see if I understand …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> It all seems to have been set up correctly and I have require'd one of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> the DLLs from a location on our server. I have access to the DLL's via a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> shared drive, but they are on a different machine to my own. The DLLs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> sit on the webserver in the bin directory within the wwwroot directory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> of an IIS server. The class interfaces are quite simple, but the DLLs do<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> a lot of work calling other services, databases etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So you have a bunch of DLLs you want to use in IronRuby, and they are located on a shared drive on a different machine than where you want to run IronRuby on? Because Windows treats a shared drive just like a local drive, IronRuby will be able to access these files just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> Now, on my machine, where my test scripts are, if I import one of these<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> DLLs using<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> require 'mydll.dll'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> What does this actually do?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> 1) Does it make a copy of the DLL code which I can use but is running<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> on my machine? Or;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> 2) Does it reference the DLL on the webserver itself such that I am<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> running code on the webserver?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> I ask as to test the DLLs effectively they will need to have the same<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> resources available to them as on the webserver (access to the DB etc).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> If the code is running on my machine, then I can't test effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>All execution is happening on the machine running IronRuby; the DLLs bits are just being loaded from the shared drive. It sounds like that’s not what you want, as you need those DLLs be in their production environment to work correctly. To test those DLLs effectively, you either need to run IronRuby on the same machine as where those binaries will work, or you need to make those binaries work on your dev machine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Keep in mind this is not a limitation of IronRuby; the problem you are trying to solve is not a job for just a programming language. Sounds like you’d ideally want a web-service on your server so you can expose functionality you want to test to your dev machines. Or even something like remote procedure calls. But I’d just test these binaries in a special environment where the web services are mocked out; testing things in production is always tricky, and not always worth it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~js<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ironruby-core-bounces@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces@rubyforge.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ivan Porto Carrero<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:59 AM<br><b>To:</b> ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ironruby-core] Testing with IronRuby Query<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>when you do require 'MyAssembly.dll'<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ironruby looks in it's search paths to see if it can find the file in one of those locations. If it exists it will just load the file with Assembly.LoadFromPath<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Not much magic <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>You may have to change the trust level in your .net security configuration to allow network locations but that counts for other .NET stuff too.<br clear=all>---<br>Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations<br>Ivan Porto Carrero<br>Blog: <a href="http://flanders.co.nz">http://flanders.co.nz</a><br>Google Wave: <a href="mailto:portocarrero.ivan@googlewave.com">portocarrero.ivan@googlewave.com</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/casualjim">http://twitter.com/casualjim</a><br>Author of IronRuby in Action (<a href="http://manning.com/carrero">http://manning.com/carrero</a>)<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Gordon Marsh <<a href="mailto:lists@ruby-forum.com">lists@ruby-forum.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<br><br>I have just got IronRuby up and running. I'm intending on using it with<br>Cucumber to test some of the DLLs on our server.<br><br>It all seems to have been set up correctly and I have require'd one of<br>the DLLs from a location on our server. I have access to the DLL's via a<br>shared drive, but they are on a different machine to my own. The DLLs<br>sit on the webserver in the bin directory within the wwwroot directory<br>of an IIS server. The class interfaces are quite simple, but the DLLs do<br>a lot of work calling other services, databases etc.<br><br>Now, on my machine, where my test scripts are, if I import one of these<br>DLLs using<br><br> require 'mydll.dll'<br><br>What does this actually do?<br><br> 1) Does it make a copy of the DLL code which I can use but is running<br>on my machine? Or;<br> 2) Does it reference the DLL on the webserver itself such that I am<br>running code on the webserver?<br><br>I ask as to test the DLLs effectively they will need to have the same<br>resources available to them as on the webserver (access to the DB etc).<br>If the code is running on my machine, then I can't test effectively.<br><br>Any advice appreciated....<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Gordon<br><span style='color:#888888'>--<br>Posted via <a href="http://www.ruby-forum.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ruby-forum.com/</a>.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ironruby-core mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org">Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org</a><br><a href="http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core" target="_blank">http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>