Judges over a Factbase Executor

A command line tool and a Ruby gem for running so-called judges against a factbase.

Every "judge" is a directory with a single .rb file and a number of .yml files. A script in the Ruby file is executed with the following global variables available to it:

• $fb — an instance of Factbase, where facts may be added/updated;
• $loog — an instance of Loog, where .info and .debug logs are welcome;
• $options — a holder of options coming from either the --option command line flag or the .yml file during testing;
• $local — a hash map that is cleaned up when the execution of a judge is finished;
• $global — a hash map that is never cleaned up;
• $judge — the basename of the directory, where the .rb script is located.
• $epoch — the time moment when plugin was started
• $kickoff — the time moment when a judge was started

Every .yml file must be formatted as such:

before:
  - abc
category: slow
runs: 1
skip: false
repeat: 20
input:
  -
    foo: 42
    bar: Hello, world!
    many: [1, 2, -10]
options:
  max: 100
expected:
  - /fb[count(f)=1]
expected_failure:
  - 'file not found'
after:
  - first.rb
  - second.rb

Here, the input is an array of facts to be placed into the Factbase before the test starts; the options is a hash map of options as if they are passed via the command line --option flag of the update command; and expected is an array of XPath expressions that must be present in the XML of the Factbase when the test is finished.

The category (default: []) may have one category or an array of categories, which then may be turned on via the --category command line flag.

The repeat (default: 1) makes the input to be repeated multiple times (mostly useful for speed measuring on big data inputs).

The runs (default: 1) is the number of times the .rb script should be executed. After each execution, all expected XPath expressions are validated.

The before (default: []) is a list of judges that must be executed before the current one.

The after (default: []) is a list of relative file names of Ruby scripts that are executed after the judge ($fb and $loog are passed into them).

The expected_failure (default: []) is a list of strings that must be present in the message of the exception being raised.

Read these guidelines. Make sure your build is green before you contribute your pull request. You will need to have Ruby 3.0+ and Bundler installed. Then:

bundle update
bundle exec rake

If it's clean and you don't see any error messages, submit your pull request.