Puppet users - Jun 2012 - Announce: puppetlabs_spec_helper 0.1.0 Available

puppetlabs_spec_helper is a Rubygem to make writing and running module spec
tests using rspec-puppet easier. It includes a set of common rake tasks and
a spec_helper that correctly initializes puppet and rspec-puppet for
testing.

The code is available on github at
http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs_spec_helper. Patches are welcome.


To convert a module with existing spec tests to use the gem:

* install the gem with ''gem install puppetlabs_spec_helper''

* Change your Rakefile to the following contents:

    require ''rubygems''
    require ''puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks''

If you have any special rake tasks, you can add them after the requires and
they will work as expected.

* Change spec/spec_helper.rb to the following contents:

    require ''rubygems''
    require ''puppetlabs_spec_helper/module_spec_helper''

* Create a .fixtures.yml file:

    fixtures:
      repositories:
        "stdlib":
"git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib"
      symlinks:
        "MY_MODULE": "#{source_dir}"

Other dependency modules can be added to the "repositories" section.

* Run ''rm -r spec/fixtures''. The rake task will populate the
fixtures
directory for you based on your .fixtures.yml


Once these steps are completed, you can execute ''rake spec'' to
run your
rspec-puppet spec tests. For an example module which uses the gem for its
spec tests, see https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt

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On Friday, June 8, 2012 4:32:35 PM UTC-4, Branan Purvine-Riley
wrote:
>
> puppetlabs_spec_helper is a Rubygem to make writing and running module 
> spec tests using rspec-puppet easier. It includes a set of common rake 
> tasks and a spec_helper that correctly initializes puppet and rspec-puppet 
> for testing.
>
> The code is available on github at 
> http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs_spec_helper. Patches are welcome.
>
>
> To convert a module with existing spec tests to use the gem:
>
> * install the gem with ''gem install
puppetlabs_spec_helper''
>
> * Change your Rakefile to the following contents:
>
>     require ''rubygems''
>     require ''puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks''
>
> If you have any special rake tasks, you can add them after the requires 
> and they will work as expected.
>
> * Change spec/spec_helper.rb to the following contents:
>
>     require ''rubygems''
>     require ''puppetlabs_spec_helper/module_spec_helper''
>
> * Create a .fixtures.yml file:
>
>     fixtures:
>       repositories:
>         "stdlib":
"git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib"
>       symlinks:
>         "MY_MODULE": "#{source_dir}"
>
> Other dependency modules can be added to the "repositories"
section.
>
> * Run ''rm -r spec/fixtures''. The rake task will populate
the fixtures
> directory for you based on your .fixtures.yml
>
>
> Once these steps are completed, you can execute ''rake
spec'' to run your
> rspec-puppet spec tests. For an example module which uses the gem for its 
> spec tests, see https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt
>
I just stumbled across this post tonight, and have already implemented the 
gem in one of my modules. So far, so good.  Thanks again for this and I 
expect to be adding it to move modules in the coming days.

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