[ruby-talk:12758] Re: assert_exception question

From: Pat Eyler <[e-mail]>
Subject: [ruby-talk:12754] assert_exception question
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 06:20:44 +0900

> Okay, I'm reading along between several docs and now I'm confused ...
> I've got a method which should raise an exception, and I want to test it
> using runit.  Only I'm not understanding the assert_exception.  From Hugh
> Sasse's Docs, I read that the syntax should be:
> 
>    assert_exception(exception, message="") {block}
> 
> Which I take to mean that I'm asserting that executing the {block} of code
> will result in an exception of type 'exception' and a message with no
> content.   This doesn't seem to be right though.  What am I missing?

The message argument is the message displayed when the assertion
is failed (just like the message argument of assert_equal).

    err = assert_exception(RuntimeError, "test01 failed") do
      raise("my exception");
    end
    assert_equal "my exception", err.to_s

Regards,
Komiya.