From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T03:56:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposed new feature: Drop to debugger on failed test

Ryan Leavengood wrote:

>>I have thought about doing it with ruby-breakpoint, but it turned out
>>that I would have to replace the definition of all the assertion methods
>>from Test::Unit which was a bit too much overhead.
>>
>>If anyone has a better idea of how to accomplish this I would be very
>>happy to integrate it.
> 
> How about adding your own initialize to AssertionFailedError?
> 
>     class AssertionFailedError < StandardError
>       def initialize(*a)
>         super(*a)
>         # Do your stuff here
>       end
>     end

Hm, do I have access to the type of the failed assertion from there?