From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2008-01-18T14:20:04+09:00
Subject: Creating unit-test where RE required

Hi All,

I have a Search class with a :nameRE setter which may validly be
either nil or a regular expression.

I setup the unit test:

	def test_002_IfNameGivenThenRE
		@search.nameRE = '/\.rb$'
		assert_raise(RuntimeError, @search.run)
	end

search.run invokes validate which in turn invokes:

		fail  "'#{@nameRE.source}' is not a valid regular expression for
nameRE!"  if
			@nameRE && Regexp.new(@nameRE).class != Regexp

That lead to the unit test result:

 2) Failure:
test_002_IfNameGivenThenRE(TestValidation) [UnitTestSearch.rb:23]:
<RuntimeError> exception expected but was
Class: <LocalJumpError>
Message: <"no block given">

So I thought I should change the assert to:

	@search.nameRE = '/\.rb$'
	assert_raise(LocalJumpError, @search.run)

but that gave me the test result:  Only other failures but none for
the nameRE.

Did I present my question clearly?  Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance,
Richard