Rails - Apr 2006 - open_session for functional tests; should it be moved or used in this way?

Hi all,

I''m chewing through writing some functional tests for an app at the
moment, and it occurs to me that open_session could be used to help
write single-controller tests as well as the integration ones. Used as
described here[1]; it''s an extremely useful idiom.

Any thoughts? Should it be moved, or generally made available, or am I
missing the point here?

Regards
Chris

[1]
http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/09/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1

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