From: Johan Nilsson <johan.nilsson@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T16:26:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing test cases/suites


"Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@talbott.ws> wrote in message 
news:160E114C-6A1F-11D9-8A83-000A95CD7A8E@talbott.ws...
> On Jan 19, 2005, at 04:06, Johan Nilsson wrote:
>
>> The class CountingClient should then only be accessible within the 
>> current ..rb file and take precedence over previous definitions. But no 
>> such beast is available - right?
>
> I usually just nest such helpers within the test class, like so:
>
>   class T < Test::Unit::TestCase
>     class Helper
>       ...
>     end
>
>     ...
>   end
>
> That way the helper is only (directly) visible to the test it's being used 
> by. Will that work for you?

Yes, of course, I wasn't even aware that Ruby supported nested classes 
(still learning). As Class is a kind of Module I should have thought about 
it though.

I'd still prefer the 'anonymous' module, but this will work.

Thanks!

// Johan