How do you run rots in a Rails integration test?

Question

How do you run rots in a Rails integration test? I can run rots from the command line, should I run the command from Ruby or is there a method I can call to get it to run?

Answer 1

I think it's best to start rots in before(:all) block (for rspec) or def setup method (for test unit) and stop it in after(:all)/def teardown block/method respectively.

To start rots you probably should use something like:

rots = IO.popen("rots")

and then to stop it:

rots.close

but be aware this code is not tested.