From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-06-04T00:00:38+09:00
Subject: Re: assert_raise question

On Thu, Mar 9, 2006 at 3:29 AM, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> For a given input a method should only raise one class of exception.
>> The restriction forces you to write better tests.
>
> The reason I would like it is that the test is the specification of the
> behavior.  I often wish to specify that a method will raise a more
> general exception than the one it actually raises.  The actual exception
> raised may be an implementation detail that I don't wish to have
> expressed in the spec.
>
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> -- Jim Weirich

There is no way you are wrong, thus you are both right :P.
Personally I prefer rspec's behavior, also because it matches the
semantics of "rescue".
But I would like to raise a question myself - I just broke the record
for the cheapest pun - why not have two different assertions for being
able to test/specify two different things.

Cheers
R.
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