From: "Jesper Rønn-Jensen" <jesperrr@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T05:30:01+09:00
Subject: Re: "require" in unit test not returning true or false

On Jul 22, 10:05 pm, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
> Look... I'm a testing _freak_ and even I don't do this...
>
> First off, you dunno if you're using the REAL require or someone's
> override.
>
> Second, you're not _actually_ testing require, so why bother?
>
> If you want to have a quick and easy way to determine that a project
> has all the dependencies it needs, that seems better placed in the
> project's rakefile or somesuch.

Thanks Ryan, that will give me some leads to work on. Could you give
an example on how you would do this in a project?

I'm not sure I follow you on how to do it with a rakefile...

One idea that comes to my mind is to new a class from the required
library. That is actually testable and runs with no errors:

  def test_mechanize
    require 'mechanize'
    m = WWW::Mechanize.new
    actual = m.class.to_s
    assert_equal("WWW::Mechanize", actual)
  end


Any comments on this? There is probably a better way...


/Jesper R�nn-Jensen
http://justaddwater.dk/