Rails - Jan 2007 - advice/suggestions for testing helpers

I''m having trouble testing helpers. I''ve found the topfunky
helper
testing plugin (http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/04/07/test-your-
helpers), and I''ve seen the helper testing discussion in the rails
recipe book, but both are falling short. Please let me know if I''m
missing something.

My helpers often need access to current url details, such as the
action and params, and session values. These solutions don''t seem to
address this.

What would be really nice is to have a functional test that would
establish the state for the url and session, and then have it yield or
call back so that the helper functions could be tested.

I might be able to do helper tests *after* the processing of the
request (in a functional test), if I could figure out how to invoke
the helpers.

My best idea so far is to refactor my helper methods so that I have a
version of the function that doesn''t rely on the session or controller
state, and instead has the appropriate values provided as parameters.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

Thank you.

-Kelly


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I''m ripping my hair out this one.

I have two select boxes.  Both have an ''observe_field'' on it. 
The first
select box, when changed, will clear the second select box and, if it needs
to, adds new options to the second select box.  The second select box, when
changed, will grab a number from the database and put it in a text box.

This all works great, except for the following circumstance.

1. The second select box is changed to the second option in the list, The
text box is updated.
2. The first select box is changed to another option, clearing the second
select box.
3. The first select box is changed to the first option it was on, filling
the second select box with options, with the first option in the list
showing.
4. The second select box is changed to the second option in the list.

Nothing happens.
The ''observe_field'' never fires.

After that, if I pick different selections in the list, it works fine.  So
if I pick the first option and then the second option again, it works.

Has anyone else run into this problem.  It seems to happen on both Firefox 2
and IE 7.

I''ve tried clearing the list in many different ways: Setting the length
to
0, looping backwards through the list and setting each option to null.

I''ve also tried many different ways to set the selection: setting
selectedIndex to 0, adding true to the Option when it''s created when
it''s
the first, setting options[0].selected = true.

Nothing seems to work.

Stephen Gerstacker



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Stephen Gerstacker wrote:
> I''m ripping my hair out this one.
> 
> I have two select boxes.  Both have an ''observe_field'' on
it.  The first
> select box, when changed, will clear the second select box and, if it 
> needs
> to, adds new options to the second select box.  The second select box, 
> when
> changed, will grab a number from the database and put it in a text box.
> 
> This all works great, except for the following circumstance.
> 
> 1. The second select box is changed to the second option in the list, 
> The
> text box is updated.
> 2. The first select box is changed to another option, clearing the 
> second
> select box.
> 3. The first select box is changed to the first option it was on, 
> filling
> the second select box with options, with the first option in the list
> showing.
> 4. The second select box is changed to the second option in the list.
> 
> Nothing happens.
> The ''observe_field'' never fires.
> 
> After that, if I pick different selections in the list, it works fine. 
> So
> if I pick the first option and then the second option again, it works.
> 
> Has anyone else run into this problem.  It seems to happen on both 
> Firefox 2
> and IE 7.
> 
> I''ve tried clearing the list in many different ways: Setting the
length
> to
> 0, looping backwards through the list and setting each option to null.
> 
> I''ve also tried many different ways to set the selection: setting
> selectedIndex to 0, adding true to the Option when it''s created
when
> it''s
> the first, setting options[0].selected = true.
> 
> Nothing seems to work.
> 
> Stephen Gerstacker

You might get more responses if starting a new thread, instead of 
replying to another.

It looks to me you should take a look at the prototype code for 
"observe_field".
Maybe even with the Firebug debugger.

I don''t think the code is that hard, and also not hard to change. We
did
that once, to solve a similar problem.

Or maybe you will find a way to reset the value that is compared against 
for "observe_field". I don''t remember.

Stephan

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