From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T21:35:33+09:00
Subject: Re: unusual rake behaviour

On Thursday 30 December 2004 03:06 am, Eric Hodel wrote:
> > 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.
>
> What's wrong with ruby -Ilib testfile?

You can only explicitly run one script at a time. Most projects have more than 
one test file to be included in a test run.  Rake use to use a script to find 
all the tests files and load them, but the -r technique accomplishes the same 
thing without polluting the test environment with any extraneous rake code. I 
suppose you could explicitly load the first (or last) test file and require 
all the others.  There are plenty of workarounds.  

I'm just curious about /why/ this change was introduced.  What does it fix?

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