rspec users - Jul 2010 - Accessing view helpers to spec cell views, Rails3, RSpec2

Hi -- I''m trying to use the excellent Cells
<http://cells.rubyforge.org/> gem
in a Rails 3 project with RSpec 2.
I''ve got the ''controller'' bit of the cells specced
okay, but I''m struggling
with the ''view'' bit.
What I want to do is to use RSpec''s view helper methods to render the
views,
but don''t know how to access them.
I''ve tried declaring the spec like this:
  describe "tabs/show.html.haml", :type => :view do
    ...
  end

This, however, still won''t give me access to the assign( key, value )
method, so I guess I''m still drawing a blank, there.
Could someone advise me on how to access the view helpers in a spec that
falls outside of the normal rails dir structure?
(The actual path to the spec in question is
"spec/cells/tabs/show.html.haml_spec.rb", and the file being specced
is
"app/cells/tabs/show.html.haml".)
Thanks for any & all help,
   Doug.
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On Jul 8, 2010, at 4:29 AM, doug livesey wrote:
> Hi -- I''m trying to use the excellent Cells gem in a Rails 3
project with RSpec 2.
> I''ve got the ''controller'' bit of the cells
specced okay, but I''m struggling with the ''view'' bit.
> What I want to do is to use RSpec''s view helper methods to render
the views, but don''t know how to access them.
> I''ve tried declaring the spec like this:
>   describe "tabs/show.html.haml", :type => :view do
:type => xxx isn''t directly supported yet (not sure if it will be or
not), but you can use it yourself and then do this in your spec_helper:

RSpec.configure do |c|
  c.include RSpec::Rails::ViewExampleGroup, :type => :view
end

HTH,
David
>     ...
>   end
> 
> This, however, still won''t give me access to the assign( key,
value ) method, so I guess I''m still drawing a blank, there.
> Could someone advise me on how to access the view helpers in a spec that
falls outside of the normal rails dir structure?
> (The actual path to the spec in question is
"spec/cells/tabs/show.html.haml_spec.rb", and the file being specced
is "app/cells/tabs/show.html.haml".)
> Thanks for any & all help,
>    Doug.
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Perfect, thankyou! :)

On 8 July 2010 11:58, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2010, at 4:29 AM, doug livesey wrote:
>
> Hi -- I''m trying to use the excellent Cells
<http://cells.rubyforge.org/> gem
> in a Rails 3 project with RSpec 2.
> I''ve got the ''controller'' bit of the cells
specced okay, but I''m struggling
> with the ''view'' bit.
> What I want to do is to use RSpec''s view helper methods to render
the
> views, but don''t know how to access them.
> I''ve tried declaring the spec like this:
>   describe "tabs/show.html.haml", :type => :view do
>
>
> :type => xxx isn''t directly supported yet (not sure if it will
be or not),
> but you can use it yourself and then do this in your spec_helper:
>
> RSpec.configure do |c|
>   c.include RSpec::Rails::ViewExampleGroup, :type => :view
> end
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>     ...
>   end
>
> This, however, still won''t give me access to the assign( key,
value )
> method, so I guess I''m still drawing a blank, there.
> Could someone advise me on how to access the view helpers in a spec that
> falls outside of the normal rails dir structure?
> (The actual path to the spec in question is
> "spec/cells/tabs/show.html.haml_spec.rb", and the file being
specced is
> "app/cells/tabs/show.html.haml".)
> Thanks for any & all help,
>    Doug.
>
>
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