From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T06:18:17+09:00
Subject: Re: temporarily change method access for test

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:25:08AM +0900, PerfectDayToChaseTornados wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have seen an example of a unit test temporarily making a private method 
> public to unit test it. Now that I need it I can't find it :-) Please could 
> someone kindly point me in the right direction?

You can always bypass the checks using instance_eval. That allows you to
directly access instance variables of the object too.

class Foo
private
  def hello
    puts "gotcha"
  end
end
a = Foo.new
a.instance_eval { hello }