From: kelly <railsinator@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T02:31:26+09:00
Subject: Re: what runs when running tests?

Thanks.

Here is what I've learned so far:

I'm testing rails code. The generated rails test stubs have this line:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'

app/test/test_helper.rb contains this line:

require 'test_help'

lib/ruby/gems/1.8/rails-1.1.6/lib/test_help.rb contains this line:

require 'test/unit'

lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit.rb contains these lines:

at_exit do
  unless $! || Test::Unit.run?
    exit Test::Unit::AutoRunner.run
  end
end

I think this is the magic that runs the tests.

-Kelly


On Feb 14, 8:46 am, "Austin Ziegler" <halosta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/14/07, kelly <railsina...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I guess I'm still learning ruby.
>
> > While looking through the test code I realized I don't see what
> > actually _runs_.
>
> A TestRunner.
>
> See the files in lib/1.8/test/unit for more information if you want to
> understand Test::Unit.
>
> -austin
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