From http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/blob/master/spec/models/profile_spec.rb describe Profile do before do @person = Factory.build(:person) end describe 'requirements' do it "should include a first name" do @person.profile = Factory.build(:profile,:first_name => nil) @person.profile.valid?.should be false ...
I have a spec for testing a controller as below require 'spec_helper' describe ProductsController do setup :activate_authlogic describe "user not logged in" do it "should not GET index" do get :index response.should redirect_to(login_path) end end describe "user logged in" do before(:each) do UserSession.create :username => "rohit...
We all know that we have this code in our create action of any basic controller def create if @product.save flash[:notice] = 'Product was successfully created.' redirect_to(products_path) else flash[:notice] = "Data not saved try again" render :action => "new" end end how do we test this part of co...
I've got the following spec in spec/views/users/new.html.erb_spec.rb: require 'spec_helper' describe "users/new.html.erb" do it "displays the text attribute of the message" do render response.should contain("Register") end end But when I run the test it fails with: ActionView::TemplateError in 'users/new.html.erb displ...
Hi, I have an issue while running my specs for a rails application with rake, it freezes on a certain spec. I would like to see what spec is running. ...
Im trying to test a condition where on successful signup a Success Template is rendered by the following controller code def create @user = User.new(params[:user]) if @user.save render :template => "success" else flash[:notice] = "Oops Somethings not quite right! :(" render :action => "new" end end ...
RSpec allows you to get the current running test method name in a before(:each) block, by doing the following: Spec::Runner.configure do |config| config.before :each do |x| x.method_name # returns 'should be cool' end end This is for a test like: require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper') describe '...
I'm attempting to create a custom validation for one of my models in Rails 2.3.5, but I keep recieving the following error everytime I run my testing suite: `method_missing_without_paginate': undefined local variable or method `validates_progression' app/models/project.rb class Project < ActiveRecord::Base ... validates_progres...
I'm trying to teach myself rails by going through http://railstutorial.org/. I quit working on the tutorial app last night and then came back to it today. Now I'm getting an error when I start up the Spork server. Here is a trace of the error. spork Using RSpec Loading Spork.prefork block... can't convert nil into Hash (TypeError) /usr/...
Hi there, I am setting up Selenium tests on Hudson and looking for an easy way to present nice results such as Project summary and build summary on Hudson. Currently I have written Selenium test cases in Rspec and PHPUnit's extension for Selenium (I prefer working on Rspec over PHP). What is the best way to present detailed report for S...
I would like to test a controller that directly renders some JSON output (by using "render :json => @entity_names"). For that task I tried in my spec file "response.should have_text('["enim", "enita"]')". Unfortunately I always get that error: Failure/Error: response.should have_text('["enim", "enita"]') undefined method `has_text?' for ...
In my controller I have some methods which return json as well as xml data. I need to test those actions. For testing the json part I found this reference and it is working fine. Now I am need of testing the actions for the XML part. Anyone who can help or suggest something are most welcome I've been scratching my head for an hour now bu...
I am following the examples in the Rails Tutorial website and I'm having issues getting the integration tests to work. Specifically the example at listing 8.20 in section 8.4.2 in the tutorial. At the visit signup_path line of code below I get the following error: "undefined local variable or method `signup_path'" require 'spec_helper'...
I have installed growl + rspec + autotest on my windows 7 machine. From the command prompt, when I type 'rspec spec/' it doesn't work. The tests will only run if I use 'rake spec/' + 'autotest'. Also, I am running these tests: http://railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#code:default_pages_controller_spec (i.e. very, very trivial) and...
When saving an object by calling Entity.create(:name => "Entity1") from the Rails console in the testing environment (RAILS_ENV=test rails console) the "Entity1" object correctly appears in the test database (MySQL) when checking it with a mysql client. But when doing the same stuff in an rspec file (entity.create(:name => "Entity1"); sl...
How do I turn off transactional fixtures for only one spec (or Steak scenario) with RSpec 2? I tried some things found on the web without any success. This leads to an undefined method exception. describe "MyClass without transactional fixtures" do self.use_transactional_fixtures = false ... end This simply does nothing (transac...
I do an RSpec integration test of the JQuery UI autocomplete functionality by using Capybara. When using Selenium (+ Firefox) as the web driver for Capybara everything works as it should, but when switching to Env.js as driver my tests fail. Are those known shortcomings of Env.js, or do I miss something? ...
Given a couple of cities in the DB: City.first.attributes => {:id => 1, :name => 'nyc'} City.last.attributes => {:id => 2, :name => 'boston'} And a route like: match '/:city/*dest' => 'cities#do_something', :constraints => {:city => /#{City.all.map{|c| c.name}.join('|'}/} (so the constraints should evaluate to: /nyc|boston/) And a ...
I'm using factory_girl + rspec on Rails 2-3-stable: Test: context "test" do before(:each) do @profile.stub!(:lastfm_enabled?).and_return(true) end it "should be able to scrobble if true" do @profile.update_attribute(:lastfm_scrobbling, true) @profile.lastfm_scrobbling_enabled?.should be_true...
I'm facing a problem with rspec and controllers i'm spec'ing an update action, so to do it i call the following code: put :update, :id => "1", :ntp => {:name=>'myservah'} My controller has the following code: def update if @ntp.update_attributes(params[:ntp]) flash.now[:notice] = "Successfully updated ntp." else flash.now[:err...