From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-01-17T02:28:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit Testing in dynamic environments

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Travis Whitton wrote:

> I'm just starting to get into unit testing, and I can already see how powerful
> a tool it can be to preemptively find bugs in my programs; however, a good
> portion of the classes I write revolve around databases and CGI. A lot of the
        [...]
>
> class DB
        [...]
>   def lims_connect
>     @lims = DBI.connect("DBI:Mysql:somedb", "someuser", "somepass")
>     @lims.connected?
>   end

There is an idea called Mock Objects, where your object pretends to
be the database, and give stable results.

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Mock_Object

has info on this.
        Hugh