Rails ActiveSupport: How to assert that an error is raised?

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I am wanting to test a function on one of my models that throws specific errors. The function looks something like this:

def merge(release_to_delete)
  raise "Can't merge a release with itself!" if( self.id == release_to_delete.id )
  raise "Can only merge releases by the same artist" if( self.artist != release_to_delete.artist   )
  #actual merge code here
end

Now I want to do an assert that when I call this function with a parameter that causes each of those exceptions, that the exceptions actually get thrown. I was looking at ActiveSupport documentation, but I wasn't finding anything promising. Any ideas?

raise assert activesupport ruby-on-rails
2 Answers

To ensure that no exception is raised (or is successfully handled) do inside your test case:

assert_nothing_raised RuntimeError do
  whatever.merge
end

To check that error is raised do inside your test case:

assert_raise RuntimeError do
  whatever.merge
end

Just a heads up, whatever.merge is the code that raises the error (or doesn't, depending on the assertion type).

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