From: "Luke St.Clair" <secureboot@...>
Date: 2009-03-25T04:51:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit - same test, different "args"

On Mar 23, 3:02 pm, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Luke St.Clair wrote:
> > Is there some way to:
> > 1) set a global variable in the "parent" test suite that the children
> > see?  Seems like the answer to this is no
>
> Shoulda sits on top of Test::Unit and may be helpful. Something like
> this:
>
> class MyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
>   context "top level" do
>     setup do
>       @stuff = ...
>     end
>
>     should "test something at top level" do
>       assert_equal 123, @stuff.size
>     end
>
>     context "inner level" do
>       setup do
>         @more_stuff = ...
>       end
>
>       should "test more" do
>         assert_equal @stuff.size, @more_stuff.size
>       end
>     end
>   end
> end


This seems incredibly useful - unfortunately, I can't use shoulda.