By: darkliquid

darkliquid — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:01:18 +0000

Sounds like what you need to be doing is stubbing. It’s kind of silly to be trying to test that a constantly changing value is equal to a fixed one.

Checkout mocha – http://mocha.rubyforge.org – it’s a stubbing library that makes testing things much easier, especially in this regard.

For example, you’d be able to do something like the below, assuming that Record.new sets ctime to be the value of Time.now:

def test_ctime
test_time = Time.now
Time.stubs(:new).returns(test_time)
record = Record.new
assert_equal(test_time, record.ctime)
end

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