From: Gennady <bystr@...>
Date: 2003-04-02T03:57:35+09:00
Subject: Re: sharing objects between tests (revisited?)

Sorry for multiple posts, it is my company's mail server fault :-(.
Switching to my personal mail account.
Gennady.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gennady" <gfb@tonesoft.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: sharing objects between tests (revisited?)


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Brannan" <pbrannan@atdesk.com>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:35 AM
> Subject: sharing objects between tests (revisited?)
>
>
> > I don't know if I've asked this on this list before or only on irc (I
> > can't find an earlier post on the subject, so I appologize if I'm asking
> > this a second time; I don't remember the answer).
> >
> > I have a number of tests that create some object.  The tests are not
> > unit tests, but I am using a unit test framework (RUNIT or Test::Unit)
> > to write the tests.  This object is expensive (time-wise) to create, and
> > I would like to share the object between my tests.  If I write this:
> >
> >   class MyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
> >     def setup
> >       @f = Foo.new
>
>     How about
>         @f ||= Foo.new
>
> >     end
> >
> >     def test_1
> >     end
> >
> >     def test_2
> >     end
> >   end
> >
> >
>
> ---
> Gennady.
>
>