From: Derek Chesterfield <dez@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T23:49:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Unit testing a private method  with arguments

$ ri send

------------------------------------------------------------ Object#send
      obj.send(symbol [, args...])        => obj
      obj.__send__(symbol [, args...])    => obj
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Invokes the method identified by _symbol_, passing it any  
arguments
      specified. You can use +_send_+ if the name +send+ clashes with an
      existing method in _obj_.

On 26 Oct 2005, at 8:12pm, 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?
>
> Thanks
> Marcus
>
>