From: kelly <railsinator@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T02:41:21+09:00
Subject: Re: what runs when running tests?

Lyle,

Thanks very much.

I see the code you refer to. Now I wonder why it is done using the
at_exit method -- seems a little obtuse to me.

My original question has been answered. Thanks again.

-Kelly


On Feb 14, 9:22 am, "Lyle Johnson" <lyle.john...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/14/07, kelly <railsina...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I scanned Test::Unit::TestCase and I see a bunch of function
> > definitions, but I don't see what runs. I guess I'm looking for a
> > method or piece of code that starts running, initializes things, finds
> > the test_* test methods and starts running them.
>
> To expand on Austin's answer just a little: I think the magic that
> you're looking for is at the tail end of unit.rb, in the
> lib/1.8/test/unit directory of the standard library. Test::Unit takes
> advantage of the at_exit() method to register a little bit of code
> that invokes the Test::Unit AutoRunner class right before the
> interpreter exits.