From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2007-02-17T23:20:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [Test::Unit] Asserting exception messages?

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 06:17 +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
> 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

Very nice, didn't think about checking the return value!

Thanks!