ActionController::TestCase doesn't come up with details information when my Class has initialization error.

rubyonrails-core
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i was wondering why i was getting the following message - "Unable to determine the controller to test from ServiceControllerTest. You'll need to specify it using 'tests YourController' in your test case definition"

after trying several times, i found my "ServiceController" had initialization error as i had included wrong method name. though to coming up with this conclusion i had to add "puts $!" to ActionController::TestCase.

     def determine_default_controller_class(name)         name.sub(/Test$/, '').constantize       rescue NameError         puts "Error #{$!}"         raise NonInferrableControllerError.new(name)       end

i think there should have a patch where it clearly mention about the original error message.

best wishes,

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i was wondering why i was getting the following message - "Unable to determine the controller to test from ServiceControllerTest. You'll need to specify it using 'tests YourController' in your test case definition"

I've changed the error message a little in:

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8749

Hopefully this makes it a little easier to track down.

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hi, thanks for your latest patch, it is better than before. anyway, i was thinking isn't that better if it could have the original error message. let's say -     def determine_default_controller_class(name)         name.sub(/Test$/, '').constantize       rescue NameError         raise NonInferrableControllerError.new(name, $!) # pretending their is an update with the constructor with an optional message field.       end

class NonInferrableControllerError   def initialize(p_name, p_message)     # ....   end end

best wishes,