From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2004-02-04T17:11:26+09:00
Subject: overriding setup in Test::Unit

Hello,

I have some unit tests that I'm having a little trouble with.

This is basically the set-up:

class TC_Foo < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def setup
    ...
  end

  def test_method1
    ...
  end
  
  def test_method2
    ...
  end
end

class TC_Bar < TC_Foo
  def setup
    ...
  end

  def test_method1
    ...
  end

  # TC_foo#method2 will get called for
  
end
  

All the tests for TC_Foo work as expected. The problem comes with
TC_Bar. I want TC_Bar#setup to be called prior to each of the unit tests
in that class, but I can't seem to make that happen. Instead,
TC_Foo#setup is called, which is not what I want at all.

I've tried explicitly undefining the setup method in TC_Bar with
'undef_method :setup', but even that doesn't work.

There must be a way to do this, right?

Ian
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