Tests running in standalone script

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Greetings,

I have a simple script that I want to run against my database. What is happening is that I found that it wanted to run a test suite automatically. I've tried to run down how that is happening, but I don't follow how it is done. It seems to be set up in the initializer somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. Since I found that it wanted to run tests, I put a small test class in there, and sure enough it runs it.

Can somebody shed some light on how this magic is happening?

Here is an example:

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ARGV.first || ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'development' puts "Loading #{ENV['RAILS_ENV']} environment." require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/environment'

class MyClass

  def run     puts "Running calculation"   end

end

class MyClass; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end

class MyClassTest < Test::Unit::TestCase   def setup     puts "running setup"   end

  def test_running_a_test     puts "running a test "     assert true

  end end

if __FILE__ == $0

  mc = MyClass.new   mc.run end

and when I run it:

./myclass.rb Loading development environment. Running calculation Loaded suite ./myclass Started running setup running a test . Finished in 0.013593 seconds.

1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

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So just for posterity, I found that one of the other developers had included TestUnit in an underlying library. Since my script loaded the Rails environment to run, it also included TestUnit, which lead to the behaviour I described.