From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T12:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: testunit message override?

From: "Logan Capaldo" <logancapaldo@gmail.com>
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:20:06AM +0900, Ron Jeffries wrote:
>> If this assert fails:
>> 
>>         assert_equal(Date.new(2006,4,15), calc.disbursal_date)
>> 
>> it prints something like:
>> 
>> test_PayFifteenthAfterQuarter(ProjectTest) [./projecttest.rb:13]:
>> <#<Date: 4907679/2,0,2299161>> expected but was
>> <#<Date: 4907681/2,0,2299161>>.
>> 
>> With the dates in a rather odd format, as you see above. Yet Date's to_s method
>> is perfectly reasonable.
>> 
> It's not calling Date#to_s, it's calling Date#inspect. I think you can
> do: 
> assert_equal( a = Date.new(2006, 4, 15), b = calc.disbursal_date,
>   "Expected Date of #{a}, got date of #{b}")

Alternately,

class Date
  alias_method :inspect, :to_s
end

...to replace the old :inspect with :to_s.



Regards,

Bill