In Ruby's Test::Unit::TestCase, how do I override the initialize method?

Question

I\'m struggling with Test::Unit. When I think of unit tests, I think of one simple test per file. But in Ruby\'s framework, I must instead write:

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Answer 1

FINALLY, test-unit has this implemented! Woot! If you are using v 2.5.2 or later, you can just use this:

Test::Unit.at_start do
  # initialization stuff here
end

This will run once when you start your tests off. There are also callbacks which run at the beginning of each test case (startup), in addition to the ones that run before every test (setup).

http://test-unit.rubyforge.org/test-unit/en/Test/Unit.html#at_start-class_method