ruby Test::Unit Command line options?

Question

When running tests in Ruby's unit::test framework, is there a really easy way to specify, from the command-line, that only one test should be run (that is, specify the test class and test member variable)? If not, is there another framework that has this feature?

Henig

Answer 1

ruby /path/to/foo_test.rb --name test_should_do_something_really_spiffy

That will call the test defined by the method test_should_do_something_really_spiffy in that file.

EDIT: That's for the Test::Unit framework that most ruby tests are written with. I am assuming you meant the same.

Cardin

Is "should_do_something_really_spiffy" a method of the subclass of test::unit? – Henig

Yes. Note that Test::Unit is being phased out and replaced by "minitest" but it retains the same API. – Unanimous

you can also use pattern as a --name argument and use -n switch for short; for example: -n /really_spiffy/ – Continuous

Answer 2

If you have the full Test::Unit framework, you can do

ruby /path/to/foo_test.rb --help

to get the command line options. I don't think it works if you just have the minitest version though.

Displant