From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-03-10T09:49:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Test Harness?

Daniel Nugent wrote:
> Is there a way to pass Rake tasks arguments?
> 
> I'd like to do something where I break my unit tests up into test
> suites by just dropping them into folders and then being able to
> invoke a Rake task like rake suite "sweet" or rake suite
> "sweet/saccharine", if I wanted a test suite inside of a test suite.
> 
> Or, alternatively, I'd like to be able to invoke test cases named
> "sucrose" by rake test_case "sucrose"
> 
> Disclaimer: I've read Rake tutorials several times in the past but
> have yet to arse myself to start using it (which I should, because I
> think I'm starting to exert more effor than is worthwhile keeping
> tests organzied without rake), so I might've forgotten the part where
> it says you can do exactly what I'm asking.

This page: http://rake.rubyforge.org/classes/Rake/TestTask.html pretty 
well describes how the built-in test task takes arguments.

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