Use a custom executable to hook to test explorer #3499
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Motivation
Setting the
RUBYOPT
in the user's terminal turned out to not be a great idea. The value persists and if the terminal is reused for other tasks, it may cause those to crash or result in unexpected behaviour.Instead of mutating the terminal environment, we can provide a simple proxy executable that will run the given command with our reporters hooked into it.
Implementation
Created a new executable that simple runs any given command with the modified
RUBYOPT
to hook our reporters. That way, we can run terminal tests connecting to the explorer without polluting the user's terminal.Stopped modifying
RUBYOPT
.