From: Bret Pettichord <bret@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T15:49:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Taming Test::Unit


>There are several ways, none of them satisfactory. First of all, as Joel 
>already mentioned, lazy initialize the resource and stuff it in a class 
>variable (he problematic thing becomes disconnecting it when you're done - 
>I don't have a good solution for this).

What about putting the teardown in an END block?

>Another way is to build your suites manually, and override TestSuite#run 
>to call suite-level setup and teardown methods.

I like this suggestion. It might be nice to do this automatically in future 
versions of test-unit.


>[ P.S. Test::Unit won't touch any command-line arguments after a '--' in 
>the list, so you should be able to just read the hostname and port out of 
>the ARGV array. ]

Another approach is to do this:

# ARGV need to be deleted to enable the Test::Unit functionatily that grabs
# the remaining ARGV as a filter on what tests to run
$HIDE_IE = ARGV.include?('-b'); ARGV.delete('-b')


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