From: Ara Vartanian <ara_vartanian@...>
Date: 2007-02-28T05:25:27+09:00
Subject: Test::Unit and one-time setup and teardown

Does anyone know of a way of performing one-time setup and teardown per Test::Unit::TestCase?

I have an integration test with an external component where, unfortunately, mocking out a server response is not feasible. So I need to mount a servlet to interact with my test. It would be pointless and slow to do this once for every test method. I know other unit testing frameworks define such callbacks. Does Test::Unit? If not, is there a clever way of getting around it? 

I am using Rails's 'test/helper', so I'm not instantiating my own test harness.  Obviously, I can setup any needed resources in the class scope of the unit test itself, BUT that still doesn't give me a callback for teardown.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

-- Ara Vartanian




 
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