On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM, William Rutiser <wruyahoo05 / comcast.net> wrote:

> Ruby has a variety of means to extend or modify assert_equal to work this
> way.

Test::Unit actually has an assertion for this, better to use it than
roll your own:

require "test/unit"

class FooTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

  def test_in_delta
    assert_in_delta 17.001, 17.00100001, 0.0001
  end

end

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