From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-01-12T10:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: unit tests and string comparisons

On Jan 11, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> I'm testing the equality of two rather large strings.  They look the
> same to me, but doing
>
> assert_equal "big ass long string", "big ass long string"
>
> says that they're different.  And they look very similar to me.  I
> know that they're different though, as doing "big ass long string".sum
> gives a different checksum than the other one.
>
> Any ideas on how I can easily view the differences between two long  
> strings?

Use unit_diff from ZenTest.

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