Using tarantula to test a Rails app

Question

I'm using Tarantula to test a Rails app I'm developing. It works pretty well, but I'm getting some strange 404s.

After looking into it, Tarantula is following DELETE requests (destroy actions on controllers) throughout my app when it tests. Since Tarantula gets the index action first (and seems to keep a list of unvisited URLs), it eventually tries to follow a link to a resource which it had deleted... and gets a 404. Tarantula is right that the URL doesn't exist anymore (because it deleted the resource itself). However, it's flagging it as an error -- that's hardly the behavior I would expect.

I'm basically just using the Rails scaffolding and this problem is happening. How do I prevent Tarantula doing this? (Or, is there a better way of specifying the links?)

Updates:

• Still searching, but I found a relevant thread here: http://github.com/relevance/tarantula/issues#issue/3
• Seems to be coming from relying on JS too much, in a way (see also http://thelucid.com/2010/03/15/rails-can-we-please-have-a-delete-action-by-default/)

Answer 1

From what I know, this is expected to be fixed in a future update of Tarantula. (See also: http://github.com/relevance/tarantula/issues#issue/3.) For now, I'm ignoring 404s that "look harmless."

UPDATE

I'm now doing "soft deletes" (just marking records as deleted), so this isn't a problem for me anymore.