From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-04-07T09:42:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Visibility in tests


On Apr 6, 2010, at 17:26 , Bernhard Brodowsky wrote:

> I don't know how to apply unit tests to private methods. Usually, I only
> use very few private methods and for my small private purposes, it was
> okay to just set those few to public, too, but how do you do that in a
> good way, if you really do have good reasons for making the methods
> private?

easy! make them public!

Either don't make them private in the first place (my preference) or make them public in your tests (second choice... usually when I'm working with inherited code):

class X
  public :previously_private_method
end

class TestX < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
  def test_previously_private_method
    ...
  end
end