From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-02-17T06:17:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [Test::Unit] Asserting exception messages?

On Feb 16, 2007, at 11:36, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:

> I've been looking around, but I haven't found a simple way of  
> asserting
> that a raised exception has a specific message. RSpec can do this  
> quite
> easily:
>
>     lambda{ @fixture.foo }.should_raise(FooError,
>        'out of foo, try our delicious bar instead!')

So does Test::Unit.

e = assert_raise BlahError do ... end
assert_equal 'something', e.message