From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-08-24T01:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: How to check syntax

Graham Nicholls (spam_filtered) wrote:
> Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
> 
>>Andreas Schwarz wrote:
>>
>>>Graham Nicholls wrote:
>>>
>>
>>Admittedly, if you've never done unit testing before, it is something of
>>a learning curve to (1) figure out the API (though it is wonderfully
>>clean and straightforward compared to JUnit), and (2) learn how to write
>>code that can be unit tested. However, TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN HOW TO DO
>>IT! It will repay you many (many!) times over in time saved debugging
>>difficult problems.
>>
> 
> Where do I start, then (sigh!).  Is this something I need simply to write
> scripts to do - a la makefiles? - in fact ISTM that a make file would be
> ideal - or am I missing something?
> Ta
> Graham

To start, I'd check out Nathaniel Talbott's documentation on test/unit:

   http://testunit.talbott.ws/doc/index.html

About halfway down the page (under Usage) it starts talking about how to 
use test/unit. Beyond that, I don't know of any resources for learning 
unit testing, although you should look at other libraries to see how 
they do their testing. ActiveRecord is a good one; I've also used unit 
tests in my SQLite/Ruby module. In a few days (hopefully) Copland 0.5.0 
will be released and it has a pretty comprehensive unit testing suite as 
well.

Anyone know of any good resources for learning how to do unit testing in 
Ruby?

- Jamis

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