From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T09:36:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit no tests specified

Another option is to override #default_test in your superclass with a
do-nothing method - this will eliminate the failure (but note that it will
eliminate it for all your subclasses, too). If you wanted to be really
fancy, you could even do something like this (not tested):

  class MySuperTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
    def default_test
      super unless(self.class == MySuperTest)
    end
  end
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I didn't have my Ruby hat on tight enough to think of that. That or the
module option should work fine.

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Well, I don't think this is possible (although I know someone will prove me
wrong as soon as I say that). How can one know if a method is empty? There's
no way I know of to determine it without walking the AST (which would
definitely fall under non-trivial).
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Hadn't thought of that. DUnit (Delphi) can do this with a cool little
assembler trick -- I'd gotten used to the behavior there forgetting how it
was done.

Thanks for the reply.

Chris