From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T02:14:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Test Harness?

On Mar 9, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Troy Denkinger wrote:

> I'm starting to feel my way around in Ruby after having been a  
> Perler for a
> very long time.  I'm trying to figure out how to write a proper  
> test harness
> in Ruby and so far I'm running up against a brick wall.  All my  
> classes have
> good unit tests using Test::Unit.  However, I want to create a  
> harness that
> I can use to run all of the unit tests at a go and give me a  
> success/failure
> report across all tests.  Every time I make a significant change I  
> have to
> remember to run all my unit tests, which is error prone.
>
> I have written test harnesses in Perl using Test::Harness::Straps  
> that does
> exactly what I want - for Perl.  Is there a similar library for  
> Ruby?  If
> so, I have yet to find it.

Making a test suite is trivial.  Just add a final like "ts_all.rb" to  
your test folder that looks something like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w

require "test/unit"

require "tc_file_one.rb"
require "tc_file_two.rb"
# ...

__END__

Execute that file to run all of the tests.  Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II