I've been playing with SpecFlow for the last couple of days. During that time I realized I should brush up on writing quality specs for these systems. Could someone point me towards some resources with best practices on creating quality specifications for SpecFlow or similar tools? ...
I have a rubygem that defines a custom SemanticFormBuilder class which adds a new Formtastic input type. The code works as expected, but I cannot figure out how to add tests for it. I was thinking I could do something like load up Formtastic, call semantic_form_for, and then ad ann input that uses my custom :as type, but I have no idea w...
I'm trying to write out some examples for a Proc that will be passed to a function as a block to be yield'd various values. I'd like to be able to specify that given some inputs, it will just return a value to the function given other values, it will break (or return) a value, skipping the rest of the function's execution. How can ...
About 6 months ago I switched from TextMate to MacVim for all of my development work, which primarily consists of coding in Ruby, Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. With TextMate, whenever I needed to run a spec or a test, I could just command+R on the test or spec file and another window would open and the results would be displayed with t...
I have a Sinatra app that uses RSpec2 beta 19. My application.rb and app_helpers.rb are in a directory /lib. The application obviously loads the helper module and my application runs but when I run RSpec I get an error that it is unable to located any gems required in the helper module. I am now sure how to load the application.rb withou...
I have an object class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :subscription end and I have this test: it "should increment shipped count when item_shipped" do @user.attributes = @valid_attributes @user.save subscription = mock_model(Subscription) subscription.stub!(:item_shipped!) subscription.stub!(:user_id) ...
Hi, i create a customized devise registration controller and i want to test it with rspec. I've tried it with a very simple test : it "creates a new parent" do Parent.should receive(:new) post :create end but i get this exception: Failures: 1) Parent::RegistrationsController POST create creates a new parent Failure/Error:...
I am using Ruby 1.8.6, Watir 1.6.6, and RSpec 1.3.0. When I run the following script, it "terminates" (term given in EclipsePDT IDE) but no error is listed. Same when I run it from the c-prompt on windows, except no "terminate". The browser never opens. Anybody got a clue? It runs OK if I take off the describe, it, and end lines. descri...
How can I make sessions work in my RSpec tests? I have tried something like this: describe "createnewlist_route_spec" do include Rack::Test::Methods use Rack::Session::Pool def app @app ||= Sinatra::Application end it "should save listitem to database" do post '/addnewlistitem', {:item => 'testitem'}, :sessions =>...
The verify_rcov task is no longer available in new rspec-2.0. just curious on how you will tackle this issue. I certainly can do what rspec 1.x did - check the html file to get the number. Is there better way for this? ...
In view pages, people use form tag helpers and link helpers etc. If I then rename a controller, or a action, my view pages may break. How can I unit test view related tags for this kind of a breakage? ...
I'm trying to test a method on my model. Running in the console works, but my rspec test does not pass. Checkout the code: Model: def import(master) hsh = master.attributes.delete_if { |k,v| k == 'id' } self.update_attributes(hsh) end Rspec test: describe "#import" do let(:master) { Factory(:sheet, :work_order => 'M1234', :sa...
Hi. I'm trying to speed up "rspecing" in a rails 2.3.8 app with spork. When I run spork in the root of the project I get: (...stuff...) No server is running Running specs locally: Spork is ready and listening on 8989! And then, if I run specs, the message No server is running Running specs locally which appears if I run them w...
I was all setup with Rspec and Autotest before I updated to Rails 3. When running rspec spec/ I'm getting: * spec/spec.opts is deprecated. * please use ./.rspec or ~/.rspec instead. I tried changed spec.opts to spec.rspec and running rspec spec/ again. But now I get a whole mess of warnings: DEPRECATION WARNING: Use toplevel init.rb...
Just to be up front, although the title appears to be similar to the thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/393622/rspec-vs-cucumber-rspec-stories, however my question is fundamentally different. I understand the difference between testing user stories and testing behavior of objects individually. My question is, why is Cucumber usua...
Hi all, when I run rspec spec/models result is OK. But when I use spork, every test where shoulda macros (like it { should validate_presence_of(:title) } is used FAILS with error like: undefined method 'validate_presence_of' for ... I use: rails (3.0.0) shoulda (2.11.3) spork (0.8.4) rspec-rails (>= 2.0.0.beta.22) spec/spec_helper....
I am in the process of upgrading my application to Rails 3. I started using Rspec 2 with Rails 3. I need to turn off transactional fixtures for some of my rspec tests. Prior I used the following code in my model specs before(:all) do ActiveSupport::TestCase.use_transactional_fixtures = false end after(:all) do ActiveSup...
I'm running Rspec 2.0.0rc on Windows 7. I am also running the win32console gem (1.3.0 x86-mingw32). The colours aren't being displayed - everything is showing up in boring old white/grey. What am I doing wrong? Edit: I also tried Rspec 2.0.0. and had the same problem ...
I'm currently reading through the beta version of The Rspec Book: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/achbd/the-rspec-book It describes The Behaviour Driven Development Cycle (red, green, refactor) as taking small steps during the development process. This means adding features one at a time. My question is: If I were to describe a single...
While trying to migrate, I keep getting this error: rake aborted! test-unit is not part of the bundle. Add it to Gemfile. If I'm using RSpec, can I just delete the test folder altogether? ...