From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T01:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Putting unit test cases in the code - RDoc & UnitTest

Hi --

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, listrecv@gmail.com wrote:

> David,
>
> That's a great idea.  The only problem is that, let's say FileA and
> FileB both require  FileC.  We'd like to run the unit tests for each
> file separately, and certainly not more than once.  With your code,
> they'll get run recursively, each time they're required.

They shouldn't run at all from any require'd file, because the $0 ==
__FILE__ test won't pass in that file.

> But maybe I could add
> if ENV["RUN_TESTS"} && $0 == __FILE__ ?
>
> Would that do it?  And I guess then RDoc would see the class and doc it
> (it'll ignore the if statement wrapping it, I assume).

If it gets that complex you might want to use Rake and set up a test
target.  That might be more scaleable.


David

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David A. Black
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