From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T23:51:23+09:00
Subject: Re: another Test::Unit question

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:05:32PM +0900, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
> > If the __FILE__ == $0 part goes away, would the test run 
> > always? Would it have to be kept in a separate file?
> This would still work fine, and would remain a perfectly valid way

*relief* :-)

> doing things. The enhancement I was talking about would simplify life
> for those (like myself) that keep tests and code in separate files, by
> keeping them from ever having to specify __FILE__ == $0 in the test file
> to get the tests to execute using their choice of runner.

Ok.

>  One question,
> out of curiosity: how do you roll up a set of tests so that you can run
> them all at the same time? It seems that the tests don't even exist
> unless you're actually executing the file with the test in it. Do you
> ever run all the tests at once?

I don't usually run more than one file's tests at a time.  To
accomplish and still keep this approach, I'd probably have a for loop
in a make file (for file in lib/*.rb; do ruby $file; done) or set a
global variable:

<file "suite.rb">

$TESTING = true

require 'file1'
require 'file2'

[run tests]

</file>


<file "file1.rb">

if __FILE__ == 0 or $TESTING
  require 'test/unit'
  ...
end

</file>


Massimiliano