Before/After Suite when using Ruby MiniTest

Question

Is there an alternative to RSpec\'s before(:suite) and after(:suite) in MiniTest?

I suspect that a custom test runner is in order, however

Answer 1

One simple way to do this is to write a guarded class method, and then call that in a begin.

A Minitest::Spec example:

describe "my stuff" do
  def self.run_setup_code
    if @before_flag.nil?
      puts "Running the setup code"
      @before_flag = true
    end
  end

  before do
    self.class.run_setup_code
  end

  it "will only run the setup code once" do
    assert_equal 1, 1
  end

  it "really only ran it once" do
    assert_equal 1,1
  end
end

...to get

Run options: --seed 11380

# Running:

Running the setup code
..

Finished in 0.001334s, 1499.2504 runs/s, 1499.2504 assertions/s.

2 runs, 2 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips