From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T03:16:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Test Harness?

On 3/9/06, Troy Denkinger <tdenkinger@gmail.com> 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.

In addition to the other suggestions you've received, there's always
this simple approach.

Put your code in a lib directory below your project directory.
Put your test code in a test directory.
cd to to your lib directory
run "testrb ../test/*.rb"

I should probably learn how to use Rake though.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.