Test Singletons

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        Method 1: Two classes. The first implements the functionality. The second gets the protection, i.e. it is the Singleton.

require 'singleton'
class WorkingFoo
  # all the functionality
end

class SingleFoo < WorkingFoo
  implements Singleton
end

In production use the second class, SigleFoo. For testing use the first class, WorkingFoo.

Literature: Russ Olso, Design Paterns in Ruby, 2007

Method 2: 
If you don't own the code or if you fear missuse of the baseclass you can use metaprogramming. 
Ian White poposes a #reset_instance method

require 'singleton'
class <<Singleton
  def included_with_reset(klass)
    included_without_reset(klass)
    class <<klass
      def reset_instance
        Singleton.send :__init__, self
        self
      end
    end
  end
  alias_method :included_without_reset, :included
  alias_method :included, :included_with_reset
end

More Info: http://blog.ardes.com/2006/12/11/testing-singletons-with-ruby 

    

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• Ruby
• singleton
• test