From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2006-05-14T07:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Forcing some code to run at the end of tests


On 13-May-06, at 6:27 PM, Sy Ali wrote:

> On 5/13/06, Mike Stok <mike@stok.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On 13-May-06, at 5:44 PM, Sy Ali wrote:
>>
>> > I'm playing with some test scripts, and I cannot for the life of me
>> > ensure that a block of code is run after every test is run.  I can
>> > think of some ugly ways to do it.. but is there an elegant way  
>> which I
>> > missed?
>>
>> Does every test mean every test case?  If so you might look at
>> Test::Unit::TestCase's teardown.
>
> No, not teardown.. I want to have some code executed after all testing
> has concluded.
>
> You'd think it'd be a matter of running it all at the end of the .rb
> file, but this is not true.. everything is run and _then_ the test
> cases are run.
>
> I suppose I could wrap the entire test in another ruby file.. it just
> seems strange to need to do this.

Have you ever tried code like this:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

foo = nil
END { puts "end #{foo}" }
puts "regular code"
foo = 'bar'
BEGIN { puts "begin" }

Maybe an END block can help you (but be careful of bindings and  
visibility...)

Mike


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