From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2006-02-11T04:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: how to test a ruby class

You can do

=== some-class.rb
class SomeClass
...
end 

if $0 == __FILE__
  c = SomeClass.new
  c.whatever_method_you_want_to_test
end

This way the code in the 'if' block will be executed only when you do 
$ ruby some-class.rb

It will not be executed when you require some-class.rb from some other
ruby file.

Gennady.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: doug.baker@ficoh.com [mailto:doug.baker@ficoh.com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:08
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: how to test a ruby class
> 
> > Hi:  I just installed Ruby and have FreeRIDE open.  In 
> Ruby, is there 
> > a method comparable to the "main" method in java that will run the 
> > class for testing?
> > I would like to run my class from the IDE.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Doug
> > 
> > 
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