silk and spinach

My Watir tests for a particular application are grouped into three subclasses of Test::Unit::TestCase. To run them all I have a top-level test suite that looks like this:

require 'test/unit'

server.start

require 'test/first_tester'
require 'test/second_tester'
require 'test/third_tester'

server.stop

But this doesn’t work as intended, because the server.stop line at the end of the script is executed before the test suite is constructed and executed, which is obviously not what I want. The problem is in test/unit: the require causes this script to collect every test method in the ObjectSpace and then invoke the runner on the resulting suite.

What I would like is to have setup and teardown methods on TestSuite; but they aren’t there. I feel sure someone somewhere must have done this already (the closest I could find was this old post on ruby-talk), but I couldn’t find one quickly so I wrote my own:

require 'test/unit/testsuite'
require 'test/unit/ui/console/testrunner'

require 'test/first_tester'
require 'test/second_tester'
require 'test/third_tester'

class TS_MyTestSuite < Test::Unit::TestSuite
  def self.suite
    result = self.new(self.class.name)
    result << FirstTester.suite
    result << SecondTester.suite
    result << ThirdTester.suite
    return result
  end

  def setup
    server.start
  end

  def teardown
    server.stop
  end

  def run(*args)
    setup
    super
    teardown
  end
end

Test::Unit::UI::Console::TestRunner.run(TS_MyTestSuite)

Please let me know if this solution - or anything equivalent - is already published elsewhere, because I hate re-inventing wheels…