From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-08-24T04:09:21+09:00
Subject: Re: How to check syntax

On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, 4:01:40 AM, Jim wrote:

> The second volume of the Pragmatic Starter Kit covers unit testing, and it
> comes from our very own Dave Thomas / Andy Hunt team!  It covers JUnit,
> but the principles carry over to Ruby's Test::Unit fairly directly. 
> Highly recommended.

Sigh... must read...

> Regarding makefiles ... I use Rake to handle make-like tasks.  I almost
> always make the test target the default in Rake, for I run the tests far
> more than anything else.  Rake does have some libraries for making run
> test suites fairly painless (not that it has to do much, its pretty
> painless already).

I disagree with that last statement.  Ensuring that you're accessing
the correct library code when you run your tests is not painless IMO.
That's where Rake helps.

Gavin