posit-dev / posit-dev/connectapi

test: Don't expect_error() without asserting the message

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I fixed one issue recently where there was a syntax error in the error message construction, so instead of showing the expected message, it was showing a string interpolation error. But the test we had for that case was just doing expect_error(), so it was passing. We should generally assert something about the error message so that we know the expected error is happening.

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