From: shevegen@... Date: 2018-07-20T14:39:01+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:88023] [Ruby trunk Feature#14925] Kernel#assert(expression) Issue #14925 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler). I can't say whether it is necessary or not; I test my ruby code quite differently (and really sparingly) compared to many other ruby hackers so I am not a good candidate to ask for any test or assertion system/framework. Some testing frameworks make use of ruby in interesting ways, in my opinion. Take RSpec: expect(Dir.exist?('doc')).to be true The: .to be true part surprised me the first time I saw it. :) Python has doctest, I think, which is fairly minimal: doctest.testmod() Don't know how useful it is, though. If I recall correctly then you wrote code in the function description. I personally found it a bit weird, since I'd expect more normal text in a description to a function/method. To your suggestion - it may be that the ruby core team expects some more context in how your proposal may be used or how it may be useful; ideally compared to what is already used, such as for the ruby specification itself (the various test code of ruby; you can see these parts often when you look at ruby git at https://git.ruby-lang.org/ruby.git/ - the ruby dev team often writes test code in the .rb files). I don't think there is any particularly high reason against your proposal as such (not sure if it should reside on Kernel or elsewhere, but I think this is a separate detail; the more important question is how the suggestion in itself may be sufficiently useful) - but the ruby dev team likes to have some specific details or some specific use case. Higher priority is usually given to when suggestions may solve existing problems, so in my opinion it often helps a lot to detail these problems or possible problems/pain points. (It also follows from the ruby philosophy, see how various suggestions have been accepted in the past when they referred to existing problems or constraints.) ---------------------------------------- Feature #14925: Kernel#assert(expression) https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14925#change-73040 * Author: deneb (S��bastien Durand) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Sometimes, you want to quickly test your code, but it's overkill to reach for a unit test library. So could it be useful to add this method to Ruby? ~~~ ruby def assert(expression) expression or raise AssertionError, 'assertion failed', caller end ~~~ -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: