On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:52:36 +0900, Graham Nicholls
<graham / rockcons.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there any way of preventing runtime errors caused by syntax errors - if
> these reside in a piece of code which is not usually executed, testing can
> be difficult.
> 
> Thanks
> Graham

how much code are you writing that you're testing part of it while
other parts aren't even written correctly?  (i hope that sentence
makes sense.)

do you use irb?  irb is your friend.  irb knows all and sees all.  irb
has *tab completion*!

-z