From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-03-24T10:49:42+09:00
Subject: Re: using unit test

On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> On 3/23/06, rtilley <rtilley@vt.edu> wrote:
>> What is the most prevalent way of using unit testing in Ruby? Do I
>> require 'test/unit' and add test methods to production scripts and  
>> then
>> comment the testing portions out when not testing? Or, should I  
>> develop
>> a 'testing' version of the scripts identical to the production  
>> versions?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice. I've got the concept down... just thinking  
>> about
>> implementation and actively using tests.
>
> I generally put my tests in a separate tests directory from my code.
> Then I have a 'run_tests.rb' file that runs all the tests.  Here's the
> entirety of run_tests.rb:
>
>         Dir["tests/*"].each { |f| require f }
>
> Or, you could somehow use Rake to run the tests, like Rails does.

Even easier:

$ ls
test/
$ ls test
test_something.rb
$ testrb test
Loaded suite test
Started
.
Finished in 0.012917 seconds.

1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

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