From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-05-09T21:12:24+09:00
Subject: Test::Unit gives no errors on loading problems

I'm rather surprised by the following result:

   $ cat x.rb
   require 'test/unit'
   requrie 'somethingelse'

   class TestIt < Test::Unit::TestCase
     def test_one
       assert_equal 1, 2
     end
   end

   $ ruby x.rb
   Loaded suite x
   Started

   Finished in 0.005333 seconds.

   0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

Although the 0 tests/0 assertions is a big clue something is wrong, I 
would have expected a little more helpful indication of error (e.g. 
Undefined method 'requrie') along with the file name and line number.

It seems that test/unit is swallowing this information somehow/


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