I am new to the unit testing seen; I have only been using unit tests for about 2 months now. When I unit test in Ruby I currently follow the TDD style and use Test::Unit::TestCase. I have also read about RSpec and how it follows the BDD methodology. I also have read about Shoulda which is a in between the two frameworks. My question is, ...
I have a Rails 3 app that uses RSpec2 as my testing framework, and I'm able to use autotest to watch my model and spec directories for changes and re-run my spec suite when files change. I'd like to add a directory with some custom classes in it (RAILS_ROOT/lib/some_project/lib/*.rb) and their corresponding specs (RAILS_ROOT/spec/some_p...
Through rspec (I'm using rspec-1.3.0, rspec-rails-1.3.2 gems) generator (ruby script/generate rspec_model suggestion section_id:integer user_id:integer subject:string content:text state:string type:string) I created model and model spec and run rake db:migrate and rake:test:prepare After that I started to work on my model spec: require...
How would I write a test in rspec to ensure passwords are not stored as plain text in my Ruby on Rails application? I don't really care about the implementation yet as I don't know exactly what plugin or how I am going to write the password encryption (there are lots of examples). I just want a failing test that's independent of the ...
I'd like to test that a method is called recursively with a specific argument. My approach: class Recursable def rec(arg) rec(7) unless arg == 7 end end describe Recursable do it "should recurse" do r = Recursable.new('test') r.should_receive(:rec).with(0).ordered r.should_receive(:rec).with(7).ordered r.rec(...
I am new to mock objects, and I am trying to learn how to use them in RSpec. Can someone please post an example (a hello RSpec Mock object world type example), or a link (or any other reference) on how to use the RSpec mock object api? ...
I am trying to get my hands on Rspec2 with Rails3 (never used rspec before). I have rspec-rails 2.0.0.beta20. After introducing some basic tests into spec/models and running rspec spec/models/user_spec.rb everthing is fine. However if I just run rake spec My development database is beeing wiped out. Even if I specify the environme...
def mock_category(stubs={}) @mock_category ||= mock_model(Category, stubs).as_null_object end describe "GET show" do it "assigns the requested category as @category" do Category.stub(:find).with("37") { mock_category } get :show, :id => "37" assigns(:category).should be(mock_category) end end Which returns : 1) Cate...
I have a rake task for a series of rspecs as follows... require 'spec/rake/spectask' require 'joliscrapper' namespace :spec do desc "Web scraping files" task :scrapers => :environment do Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new do |t| t.spec_opts = ['--options', "\"#{RAILS_ROOT}/spec/spec.opts\""] t.spec_files = FileList['spec/scr...
I've been writing tests for a while now and I'm starting to get the hang of things. But I've got some questions concerning how much test coverage is really necessary. The consensus seems pretty clear: more coverage is always better. But, from a beginner's perspective at least, I wonder if this is really true. Take this totally vanilla c...
Trying to reinstall RSpec, and I can't seem to re-add its command to my bin folder. Mac-Users-MacBook-Pro:bin macuser$ rspec -bash: /usr/bin/rspec: No such file or directory >> which rspec #> returns nothing. I tried sudo gem install rspec --prerelease a dozen times, bundle install , and nothing seems to give. What am I missing? ...
I'm reading through the (still beta) rspec book by the prag progs as I'm interested in behavioral testing on objects. From what I've gleaned so far (caveat: after only reading for 30 min) the basic idea is that I want ensure my object behaves as expected 'externally' ie. in its output and in relation to other objects. Is it true then t...
I am running rails 3.0.0, rspec-rails 2.0.0.beta.20, webrat 0.7.2.beta.1, cucumber-rails 0.3.2 I have this scenario: Scenario: Given I am on the new account page And I fill in "Name" with "John Doe" When I press "Create" Then I should be on the access page When I run it I get: expected: "/access", got: "/accounts" Like its ...
I have 30 specs in my foo_controller_spec.rb and when I run the entire file using spec, I get 4 failures and 2 pending. When I run the 4 failing specs individually, 3 of them still fail, but one of them passes. At first I thought it was a database issue, that the data wasn't being cleaned out properly between runs. So I installed databas...
I have been attempting to dive into RSpec 2 but its auto generated controller specs do not work for any version of RSpec 2 with any version of Ruby or any version of Rails. Maybe I'm missing something obvious? def mock_category(stubs={}) @mock_category ||= mock_model(Category, stubs).as_null_object end describe "GET show" do it "as...
Is it possible to completely remove rspec from a project, and then reinstall it again? The reason I ask is because I had started my project on Rails 3 beta, and now that the new one has come out, the new rspec conflicts and nothing passes. But if I start a new project, everything seems to work as expected. ...
I'm having trouble creating specs for my views and requests. Some of my controllers use named_scope, like this: #projects_controller.rb @projects = Project.with_user( current_user) ## project.rb: scope :with_user, lambda {|u| {:joins => :client, :conditions => {:clients => {:user_id => u.id} } }} but the following spec gives an ...
Is there any way to kick off optparse several times in one Ruby program, each with different sets of options? Example: $ myscript.rb --subsys1opt a --subsys2opt b here, myscript.rb would use subsys1 and subsys2, delegating their options handling logic to them, possibly in a sequence where 'a' is processed first, followed by 'b' in s...
In RSpec, if I have warnings on and have x.should == 42 another_line_of_code then I get a warning about warning: useless use of == in void context Is there anything I can do other than Turn warnings off Change it to bitbucket = (x.should == 42) ...
I'm pretty confused how to validate boolean values in Rspec and Rails. I understand everything except for false and nil are taken as true in Ruby. But when I use MySQL with Rails, it uses 1 for true and 0 for false (if my understanding is correct). I have the following model spec. I'd like to test boolean value for superuser attribute. ...