From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2007-02-20T07:44:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Assertions Testing in irb

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Bharat Ruparel <bruparel@mercury.com> wrote:
>> Ok, then there has to be "recommended" way to "invoke" the unit testing
>> functionality in irb.
> 
> Yes. The recommended way is "don't." Unit tests are things that are
> designed to be repeatable and related to classes that you're building.
> Simply using the assertions gains you absolutely nothing with respect
> to using IRB itself.

Agreed. Besides, it's often simpler to write:

  raise unless foo == bar

than it is to use Test::Unit's assertions:

  assert_equal foo, bar  # is it foo, bar or bar, foo? I always forget 
;)

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