From: "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...>
Date: 2005-07-01T01:02:36+09:00
Subject: Re: running unit tests in graphical mode

Quoting Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de>:

> > Quoting Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>>Currently, the file that runs all the unit tests looks something like
> >>>>(from memory)
> >>>>
> >>>>Dir["tests/*.rb].each { |file| require file }
> >>
> >>That one line is all that's in unit_tests.rb, which I run with 'ruby
> >>unit_tests.rb'.
> >>
> >>It's very nice not to have to do any other crufty setup-type things to
> >>run unit tests.  And so my question was how can I easily modify my
> >>current way of unit tests to run tests in a graphical mode.
>
> Just run your file with
>
>    testrb -rt unit_tests.rb
>
> I'm doing more or less the same and it works for me.

Wow!  I wasn't aware of testrb.  So there's no need to create a Ruby source file
that pulls all the test source files into a single file.  You can just write
separate unit test files and execute them all with

testrb [-rtk] *.rb

If your unit tests are in a test directory that is a sibling directory of a lib
directory where the source files being tested are stored then you may want to
run the tests from the lib directory like this.

testrb [-rtk] ../test/*.rb

This allows the unit tests to require the source files they test without
specifying the path to them.

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.