[rspec-users] RSpecing a ‘binary’

[Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)]

Ashley Moran:

> When I've written command-line tools, I've done exactly this. Use
> Dir.tmpdir to give you a working space to hold any input/output files,
> and call it with Kernel#` to capture its STDOUT.

Thanks a lot, Ashley! This is what I’m going to do, then. :)

I’ve just finished watching Rick Bradley’s ‘flog << Test.new’
presentation¹ from Ruby Hoedown 2008, and the first part (past
the introduction) is about how he RSpeced the flog binary – also
most informative!

¹ http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/11-rick-bradley-flog-test-new.html

-- Shot
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