From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2004-02-05T05:07:39+09:00
Subject: Re: New Computer, version, confusion

On Feb 4, 2004, at 14:55, Ronald E Jeffries wrote:

> I just got a new computer and need to get stuff moved over to it.
> Among "stuff" is Ruby, which mediates building my web site.
>
> I had taken to building my little projects with a project file that
> looks like this:
>
> project.rb:
> ==========
> require 'rubyunit'
> require "binsrch.rb"
>
> With the actual program and tests (for simple examples) in the second
> required file, as shown below.
>
> I used to reference TestCase thus:
>
>
> class TestBinsrch < TestCase
>
> in Ruby 1.6, but now in 1.8 I have to say
>
>
> class TestBinsrch < Test::Unit::TestCase
>
> When I make that change, things seem to be working OK. What happened?
> What would I have to do to make it go back to the other way?

Well, previously you were probably using an actual installation of 
RubyUnit, which I guess aliased RUNIT::TestCase to the top-level 
constant TestCase. Test::Unit doesn't do that, because I'd rather not 
pollute the namespace automatically. Thus you need to fully qualify the 
class name. A possible workaround if you have a bunch of tests that you 
don't want to change is to do the following before your tests:

   include Test::Unit

Which imports that namespace in to the top-level.

HTH,


Nathaniel

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