From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T06:28:34+09:00
Subject: Re: unusual rake behaviour


Jim Weirich said:
>
> Yogi said:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I've been getting some odd behaviour in rake. The foll cmd doesn't
>> seem to run the tests in foo_test.rb. I'm using ruby 1.8.2, rake
>> 0.4.13, on linux (fedora core 2)
>
> Hmm ... I just tried the code you supplied on a windows box and a debian
> box and had no problems.  I tried with the foo_test.rb file in the same
> directory as the Rakefile and also with it in a subdirectory named test.
>
>> I've also tried running "ruby -Ilib -e0  -rfoo_test", and it gives the
>> same output.

Someone just informed me that in 1.8.2 test/unit does not work with the
ruby -e0 -rtestfile technique that Rake is using to load the unit tests. 
I haven't been able to verify this.  I'm not running 1.8.2 yet, so I am
not able to validate this.

Nathaniel ... is this intentional?  What's the story?

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