using unit test

[rtilley]

What is the most prevalent way of using unit testing in Ruby? Do I
require 'test/unit' and add test methods to production scripts and then
comment the testing portions out when not testing? Or, should I develop
a 'testing' version of the scripts identical to the production versions?

Thanks for any advice. I've got the concept down... just thinking about
implementation and actively using tests.

Brad

 

[Joe Van Dyk]

What is the most prevalent way of using unit testing in Ruby? Do I
require 'test/unit' and add test methods to production scripts and then
comment the testing portions out when not testing? Or, should I develop
a 'testing' version of the scripts identical to the production versions?

Thanks for any advice. I've got the concept down... just thinking about
implementation and actively using tests.

I generally put my tests in a separate tests directory from my code.=20
Then I have a 'run_tests.rb' file that runs all the tests. Here's the
entirety of run_tests.rb:

Dir["tests/*"].each { |f| require f }

Or, you could somehow use Rake to run the tests, like Rails does.

Joe

 

[Eric Hodel]

What is the most prevalent way of using unit testing in Ruby? Do I
require 'test/unit' and add test methods to production scripts and
then
comment the testing portions out when not testing? Or, should I
develop
a 'testing' version of the scripts identical to the production
versions?

Thanks for any advice. I've got the concept down... just thinking
about
implementation and actively using tests.

I generally put my tests in a separate tests directory from my code.
Then I have a 'run_tests.rb' file that runs all the tests. Here's the
entirety of run_tests.rb:

Dir["tests/*"].each { |f| require f }

Or, you could somehow use Rake to run the tests, like Rails does.

Even easier:

$ ls
test/
$ ls test
test_something.rb
$ testrb test
Loaded suite test
Started

 

[Erik Hollensbe]

Put the tests in a separate directory alongside the code. Chapter 12 of
the Pickaxe includes some "best practices" for unit testing Ruby with
Test::Unit.

I have a patch which fixes the test functionality in Minero Aoki's
setup.rb, which lets you create a test/ directory and run:

ruby setup.rb test

and it will execute all the tests in the test/ directory.

Please email privately if you want the patch (I've already submitted it
and recieved no response).