Request for unit tests for learning purposes

I'm currently building a suite of unit tests inspired by Mike Clark:

http://clarkware.com/blog/2005/03/18/ruby-learning-test-1-are-you-there-world

Needless to say, I've cloned his repository rather than starting from
scratch. I'm adding comments and my own tests. Hopefully this will one
day be of use to other people, too. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has
any unit tests for the following (in particular):

fileutils
pathname
yaml

or any other beginner friendly, well documented tests.

Any contributions or links gratefully accepted.

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I've got 50 or 60 in Ruby Kickstart
GitHub - JoshCheek/ruby-kickstart: An interactive guide to learning the Ruby programming language. None for stdlib stuff like that,
though.

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Simon Harrison <simon@simonharrison.net>wrote:

I'm currently building a suite of unit tests inspired by Mike Clark:

http://clarkware.com/blog/2005/03/18/ruby-learning-test-1-are-you-there-world

Needless to say, I've cloned his repository rather than starting from
scratch. I'm adding comments and my own tests. Hopefully this will one
day be of use to other people, too. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has
any unit tests for the following (in particular):

fileutils
pathname
yaml

or any other beginner friendly, well documented tests.

Any contributions or links gratefully accepted.

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Please check out http://testfirst.org and the ruby suite at
http://testfirst.org/learn_ruby

Hopefully you can fit your exercises into our framework rather than
building your own. Many hands make light work!

- A

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Simon Harrison <simon@simonharrison.net> wrote:

I'm currently building a suite of unit tests inspired by Mike Clark:

http://clarkware.com/blog/2005/03/18/ruby-learning-test-1-are-you-there-world

Needless to say, I've cloned his repository rather than starting from
scratch. I'm adding comments and my own tests. Hopefully this will one
day be of use to other people, too. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has
any unit tests for the following (in particular):

fileutils
pathname
yaml

or any other beginner friendly, well documented tests.

Any contributions or links gratefully accepted.

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Thanks both for the suggestions, but I prefer unit tests because they
serve as a great reference for the learner. For example I had some help
the other day with string formatting and now they're saved if I ever
need to check how they work (from string_test.rb):

  def test_percent_operator_with_leading_zeros
    str = "The number is %05d" % 123
    assert_equal("The number is 00123", str)
  end

  def test_percent_operator_with_range_and_leading_zeros
    var = (1..5).map do |n|
      "Num-%02d" % n
    end
    assert_equal(["Num-01", "Num-02", "Num-03", "Num-04", "Num-05"],
var)
  end

  def test_percent_operator_with_two_args
    str = "I'm %s and I'm %d years old." % ["simon", 100]
    assert_equal("I'm simon and I'm 100 years old.", str)
  end

From Mike Clarks blog post

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"In the same way that a test is better than a specification, the
language is better than a description of the language. The test is
definitive—when we ask Ruby what the answer to 'Hello! ' * 3 is, we're
going to the horse's mouth. It doesn't matter what the documentation
says; what we're testing is what actually happens. And that's learning.
So the test is both a learning test and a regression test."

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