From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-06-03T11:15:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit Testing Style

On Tuesday,  3 June 2003 at 10:30:00 +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
> 
> Sometimes you DO need to talk to external resources (e.g. databases,
> servers, etc.).  I usually isolate these tests in their own area
> (usually a separate Rake/Make target).  Then I can run the unit tests to
> check the code as often as I want and get a lots of "feel good" karma. 
> And then I can run the environment dependent tests separately to make
> sure I still can talk to the outside world.
 
 So Jim, do you have a short example of using rake to
 manage unit tests?
 I am thinking about moving from make to rake so my tests
 will be environment independent (at least it will be easier
 to install rake than make).


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Jim Freeze
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