[ruby-core:30007] Re: [Backport #3219] assert now passes non-boolean result

On Apr 30, 2010, at 23:16 , Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Sat, 1 May 2010 14:30:19 +0900,
> Eric Hodel wrote in [ruby-core:29910]:
>> class TestAssert < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
>>  def test_assert
>>    o = Object.new
>>    def o.to_s() "something useful" end
>>    assert false, o
>>  end
>> end
> 
> I can't imagine how it is useful in what situation.  Could you
> elaborate?

Here is one I just wrote:

>     root.childNodes.each do |child|
>       assert child.path, child
>     end

I want to know which child object doesn't have a valid path. I almost never use assertion messages, but when I do, they're almost never Strings.