MiniTest before and after all

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What is the reasoning behind MiniTest's lack of support for
`before :all` / `after :all` ?

I can understand that one should keep setup procedures to a minimum,
but are their not use cases where pre-testcase setup is really needed
-- logging into a database or service, for example?

What is the conventional thinking on this topic?

2

Thomas Sawyer wrote in post #1015734:

What is the conventional thinking on this topic?

Maybe I'm wrong but I was going through some Ruby standard libraries
just the other day and I saw this:

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##
  # Define a 'before' action. Inherits the way normal methods should.
  #
  # NOTE: +type+ is ignored and is only there to make porting easier.
  #
  # Equivalent to MiniTest::Unit::TestCase#setup.

  def self.before type = :each, &block
    raise "unsupported before type: #{type}" unless type == :each
    define_inheritable_method :setup, &block
  end

  ##
  # Define an 'after' action. Inherits the way normal methods should.
  #
  # NOTE: +type+ is ignored and is only there to make porting easier.
  #
  # Equivalent to MiniTest::Unit::TestCase#teardown.

  def self.after type = :each, &block
    raise "unsupported after type: #{type}" unless type == :each
    define_inheritable_method :teardown, &block
  end

Keep in mind I don't use minitest so that might not be what you're
after.

-Luke

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3

That's just elucidating my question. Read the line:

    raise "unsupported before type: #{type}" unless type == :each

I'm asking about `:all`,

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On Aug 9, 5:16 pm, luke gruber <luke....@gmail.com> wrote:

>Thomas Sawyer wrote in post #1015734:
> What is the conventional thinking on this topic?

Maybe I'm wrong but I was going through some Ruby standard libraries
just the other day and I saw this:

##
# Define a 'before' action. Inherits the way normal methods should.
#
# NOTE: +type+ is ignored and is only there to make porting easier.
#
# Equivalent to MiniTest::Unit::TestCase#setup.

def self.before type = :each, &block
raise "unsupported before type: #{type}" unless type == :each
define_inheritable_method :setup, &block
end

##
# Define an 'after' action. Inherits the way normal methods should.
#
# NOTE: +type+ is ignored and is only there to make porting easier.
#
# Equivalent to MiniTest::Unit::TestCase#teardown.

def self.after type = :each, &block
raise "unsupported after type: #{type}" unless type == :each
define_inheritable_method :teardown, &block
end

Keep in mind I don't use minitest so that might not be what you're
after.

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I'm asking about `:all`,

You probably found this already, but just in case:
http://bfts.rubyforge.org/minitest/MiniTest/Unit.html#method-c-after_tests

I don't think Minitest supports a before_tests though

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