From: Mike Harris <GENIE@...>
Date: 2006-03-24T06:30:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance Question

David Solis wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm having difficulty understanding inheritance in this case. In the 
>program below, I'm inheriting from <Test::Unit::TestCase. I also want my 
>other class in this program to inherit from <Test::Unit::TestCase. My 
>goal is to be able to make assertions in both classes.
>
>If a run the program as written below, it works.
>
>require 'test/unit'
>require 'test/unit/ui/console/testrunner'
>
>class TC_MyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
>  def test_myMethod
>    puts 'test 1'
>      assert(true, 'test 1')
>    @test = TC_MyClass.new()
>    @test_new = @test.test_myTestCase
>  end
>End
>
>class TC_MyClass
>  def initialize
>  end
>  def test_myTestCase
>    puts 'test 2'
>      #assert(true, 'test 2')
>    puts 'test 3'
>    puts 'test 4'
>  end
>end
>
>But if try to do this, I get an error:
>
>class TC_MyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
>  def test_myMethod
>    puts 'test 1'
>      assert(true, 'test 1')
>    @test = TC_MyClass.new()
>    @test_new = @test.test_myTestCase
>  end
>End
>
>class TC_MyClass < Test::Unit::TestCase
>  def initialize
>  end
>  def test_myTestCase
>    puts 'test 2'
>      assert(true, 'test 2')
>    puts 'test 3'
>    puts 'test 4'
>  end
>end
>---------------------
>c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/testcase.rb:51:in `initialize': wrong 
>number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError)
>
>  
>
i know people already said this, but I'm saying it again cause it might 
get lost in the noise.

remove the initialize method