From: Robert Feldt <robert.feldt@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T11:52:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does a test fail when I predicted it's exception class?

On 12/3/06, Richard <RichardDummyMailbox58407@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a test suite that invokes on test set that specifies
>
> assert_raise(ZeroDivisionError, MyCalc.new.calc)
>
> When I run the test suite, instead of "1 test, 0 failures, 0 errors",
> I get the following. The code follows this output.
>
> What's up?
>
You are using assert_raise in the wrong way. The call you want to test
must be wrapped in a block so that it's exception can be catched and
compared to the expected one.

Try something like

    assert_raise(RuntimeError) {raise ""}

/Robert