From: "Florian Groß" Date: 2005-11-23T06:57:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Proposed new feature: Drop to debugger on failed test Ryan Leavengood wrote: >>Hm, do I have access to the type of the failed assertion from there? > > Not really...are you sure do you need it? > > AssertionFailedError.new is only called in one place, assert_block, > which is what is called by all the other assertions. So maybe you > could also override or alias assert_block. Basically it would be wonderful to have that information as part of the reason why the breakpoint was triggered. Last time I checked the problem was that as soon as the methods to through a central place that kind of information is already lost. Sure, it's not that critical a thing and I will probably still do this, but it would be nice to have a bit more information available. Thanks for the information!