How to turn a static CGI-style perl script(xxx.pl) to a dynamic PSGI application?

Question

CGI-style perl scripts are hard to test in this style:

def test_it_says_hello_to_a_person
   get '/home.pl', :name => 'Simon'
   assert last_response.body.include?('Simon')
end

(Note: the code is in ruby, using Rack::Test ).

But if I can turn static file to a PSGI application (A code reference, accept $env as parameter, return [$status, $header, $body] ), things will be easy, and Plack::Test will do the rest.

I am reading PSGI specification, generally I can see the route to this. But I still want to know is there any existence wheel to this?

Also, I think Plack::Test 's interface is not as beautiful as Rack::Test , any Alternatives?

Answer 1

I think you want to look at Plack::App::WrapCGI . When you give it a Perl script as an argument, it uses a technique similar to ModPerl::Registry to compile your CGI script into a PSGI app. And even if it can't figure out how to do that, it has the ability to emulate a complete CGI environment from a PSGI environment, meaning that it can fork and exec a bona fide CGI script (even one written in another language) and run it under any sort of Plack handler, including Plack::Test.