Backgroundrb devel - Dec 2006 - Testing your workers

This has been asked before, never well attended perhaps.

Any thoughts on testing your workers?

Current implementation is broken. An empty test case like this:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''
require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/workers/market_summary_worker"
require
"#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb.rb"
require ''drb''

class MarketSummaryWorkerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

  # Replace this with your real tests.
  def test_truth
    assert MarketSummaryWorker.included_modules.include?(DRbUndumped)
  end
end

Throws error:
------------
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:123:in
`const_missing'': uninitialized constant Worker (NameError)
        from
/home/hemant/ubac_webfront/config/../lib/workers/market_summary_worker.rb:9
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require''
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require''
        from test/unit/market_summary_worker_test.rb:2
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So, I added couple of more files to the require and:
-------------------
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''

BACKGROUNDRB_CODE = File.dirname(__FILE__) +
''/../../vendor/plugins/backgroundrb''

$LOAD_PATH << File.join(BACKGROUNDRB_CODE + ''/lib'')
$LOAD_PATH << File.join(BACKGROUNDRB_CODE +
''/server/lib'')
$LOAD_PATH << File.join(BACKGROUNDRB_CODE +
''/server/lib/backgroundrb'')

require ''backgroundrb_server''
require "backgroundrb"
require "worker_rails"
require File.dirname(__FILE__) +
''/../../lib/workers/add_analyst_worker''

require ''drb''
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Now the error I get is:

---------------------
./test/unit/../../vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/middleman.rb:158:in
`register_worker_class'': You have a nil object when you didn''t
expect
it! (NoMethodError)
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.include? from
./test/unit/../../vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/worker.rb:17:in
`register''
        from ./test/unit/../../lib/workers/add_analyst_worker.rb:117
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require''
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require''
        from test/unit/add_analyst_worker_test.rb:12
----------------------

So, I would imagine testing support is quite lame here.  Can anyone
point me, in the direction, what else I should require in the testcase
so that at least an empty test case executes?






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