Turn specific error into a failure in ruby Test::Unit

Question

I would like a way to take an error generated within a specific test method inside a Test::Unit::TestCase and turn it into a failure with a more friendly generic message. I keep thinking this should be possible with some inheritance but I can't quite get my head around it.

class CalenderTest001 < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def testZoneCal001
    Fixture.reset
    $driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
    $driver.get "http://myTestSite.com/"
    $driver.find_element(:id, "IDthrowsAnError").click
  end
end

The effect I would like is to have the entire thing wrapped in a begin rescue end block with the rescue block looking something like this.

rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError => e
  #mark this test as a failure not an error

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 20:54

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You can use the assert_nothing_raised construct:

def testZoneCal001
  assert_nothing_raised "Something went wrong!" do
    Fixture.reset
    $driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
    $driver.get "http://myTestSite.com/"
    $driver.find_element(:id, "IDthrowsAnError").click
  end
end

answered Sep 17 '13 at 20:54

Yossi

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I would like to make the test case and the test report more readable to people who didn't write the test. I would need to catch that specific error, and it would help if I didn't actually have to wrap every single test in a do end block. It seems like there should be a way to DRY this out. – Zach Sep 17 '13 at 21:05

Turn specific error into a failure in ruby Test::Unit

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