From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2007-02-28T12:54:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit and one-time setup and teardown

On Feb 27, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Ara Vartanian wrote:
> 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?

Have you tried BEGIN {} and END {}?  But perhaps there's something  
more graceful.
-Mat