Gordon, I?m a bit confused about what you?re trying to do ? let me see if I
understand ?
> It all seems to have been set up correctly and I have require''d
one of
> the DLLs from a location on our server. I have access to the DLL''s
via a
> shared drive, but they are on a different machine to my own. The DLLs
> sit on the webserver in the bin directory within the wwwroot directory
> of an IIS server. The class interfaces are quite simple, but the DLLs do
> a lot of work calling other services, databases etc.
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.
> Now, on my machine, where my test scripts are, if I import one of these
> DLLs using
>
> require ''mydll.dll''
>
> What does this actually do?
>
> 1) Does it make a copy of the DLL code which I can use but is running
> on my machine? Or;
> 2) Does it reference the DLL on the webserver itself such that I am
> running code on the webserver?
>
> I ask as to test the DLLs effectively they will need to have the same
> resources available to them as on the webserver (access to the DB etc).
> If the code is running on my machine, then I can''t test
effectively.
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.
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.
~js
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at
rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:59 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Testing with IronRuby Query
when you do require ''MyAssembly.dll''
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
Not much magic
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.
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Gordon Marsh <lists at
ruby-forum.com<mailto:lists at ruby-forum.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I have just got IronRuby up and running. I''m intending on using it with
Cucumber to test some of the DLLs on our server.
It all seems to have been set up correctly and I have require''d one of
the DLLs from a location on our server. I have access to the DLL''s via
a
shared drive, but they are on a different machine to my own. The DLLs
sit on the webserver in the bin directory within the wwwroot directory
of an IIS server. The class interfaces are quite simple, but the DLLs do
a lot of work calling other services, databases etc.
Now, on my machine, where my test scripts are, if I import one of these
DLLs using
require ''mydll.dll''
What does this actually do?
1) Does it make a copy of the DLL code which I can use but is running
on my machine? Or;
2) Does it reference the DLL on the webserver itself such that I am
running code on the webserver?
I ask as to test the DLLs effectively they will need to have the same
resources available to them as on the webserver (access to the DB etc).
If the code is running on my machine, then I can''t test effectively.
Any advice appreciated....
Thanks,
Gordon
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