From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-08-16T05:29:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit feature request - regexp pattern of tests to run

On Sunday 15 August 2004 22:05, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> > prompt> ruby test_me.rb --name "test_.*something.*"
> >
> > so that all tests with 'something' in their method name gets invoked.
>
> This is already in. You just need to pass a regular expression instead
> of a string:
>
> ruby test_me.rb -n /test_.*something.*/
>
> Very useful...

Ok.. hmm Thanks.. (how did I overlooked that?)

However.. still methods without 'test_' prefix gets rejected.
It would be nice if Test::Unit didn't reject non tests.


bash-2.05b$ ruby test_buffer.rb -n /xtest_bracket_matcher13/
Loaded suite test_buffer
Started

Finished in 0.00142 seconds.

0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
bash-2.05b$ grep xtest test_buffer.rb
        def xtest_string_paren_forward5
        def xtest_bracket_matcher13
bash-2.05b$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.1 (2004-04-24) [i386-linux-gnu]
bash-2.05b$

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Simon Strandgaard