From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-10-27T04:15:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Unit testing a private method  with arguments


On Oct 26, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Marcus Lindemann wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm somewhat new to ruby. and I want to unit test my methods. Since  
> I compose my public methods from private ones, I start writing and  
> also test those first. From the web I found that testing of private  
> methods is possible through
>
> class Foo
>     def foobar
>         bar
>     end
>
> private
>     def bar  # <-- takes no params
>         "bar"
>     end
>
>     def bla(aName)
>     aName
>     end
> end
>
> x = Foo.new
> x.send(:bar)
>
> However, when applying this to method bla, I don't have any idea on  
> how to pass any argument to bla. Can someone help me here?

An easier way to do it is:

private unless $TESTING

But, send takes 1 or more arguments:

x.send :bla, 'Marcus Lindemann'

(And passes blocks along as well.)

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