From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-09-17T14:18:44+09:00
Subject: Re: MiniTest


On Sep 16, 2009, at 22:00 , George Thomas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am relatively new to Ruby and I couldn't make MiniTest to execute  
> the
> test.
>
> The code I am trying to is as follows
>
> # ...

> The file containing the above code loads fine, but does not execute  
> the
> test.
> I am loading the file from iteractive Ruby window.
>
> However , if I press ^C in the interactive Ruby window (After loading
> the file) , the test case starts excecuting
>
> Can some one point to me why the same is not working?

unit tests are not run via irb. they're run from the commandline:

ruby -Ilib test/test_blah.rb

Both test/unit and minitest both rely on executing via the at_exit  
mechanism, so you're loading the tests, but they don't run until you  
leave irb.