Question, how do you test private & protected methods?

To be as DRY as possible, I wrote this (source code extracted from http://github.com/garnierjm/dry-report/tree/master/spec/spechelper.rb)


def changescopeofmethodtopublic(clazz, method)
eval("class #{clazz}
public(:#{method.tos})
end")
end


then before calling a private / protected method:


changescopeofmethodtopublic(DontRepeatYourself::SimianRunner, :parameterexcludes)


I did that because the way I TDD is with very small methods (3-4 lines max) and very long and expressive names (viva La Autocompletion!). Sometimes I stub these small methods to go straight to the behavior I want to implement. Most of the times, it’s a 5-10 minutes job to write the specs for these tiny methods and make them pass …