From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-09-09T23:13:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Per suite unit test setup and teardown

On Aug 28, 5:38 am, Peter Hickman <pe...@semantico.com> wrote:
> I am putting some tests together that need to access an external service
> which I can use setup() and teardown() to control. The problem is that
> these methods are run before and after each test, this slows things down
> quite a bit. Ideally there would be one setup before all the tests are
> run and one teardown at the end. Nunit has this functionality and I'm
> sure I've seen it in other frameworks.
>
> Is there a way to get until test to do this or will I have to end up
> putting all my tests in a single test method?

They were added to test-unit 2.0:

http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=25263

gem install test-unit

Regards,

Dan