From: Louis J Scoras <louis.j.scoras@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T11:52:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does a test fail when I predicted it's exception class?

On 12/2/06, Richard <RichardDummyMailbox58407@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:

> tc_TestSet.rb
> ==========
> require '.\BasicCalc.rb'
>
> class Test1 < Test::Unit::TestCase # The long-winded way
>         def test_excep
>                 assert_raise(ZeroDivisionError, MyCalc.new.calc)
>         end
> end

You need to run the code that raises the exception in a block.

    assert_raise(ZeroDivisionError) { MyCalc.new.calc }

should do the trick.


-- 
Lou.