Rails - Oct 2006 - How to test an acts_as plugin?

I''m currently writing my first plugin, which is in the acts_as style, 
but I can''t for the life of me work out how to get the testing working.

The plugin is called ''acts_as_task_list'', and I want to create
a model
just for testing this, so my test currently looks like this:

require ''test/unit''
require ''active_record''

# This model is just for testing the plugin.
class Contract < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_task_list
end

# The first bit doesn''t work, so I haven''t got as far
# as this bit yet.
class ActsAsTaskListTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  # Replace this with your real tests.
  def test_this_plugin
    flunk
  end
end

As I expected, this test explodes because Ruby hasn''t loaded up the 
plugin and included the acts_as_task_list into ActiveRecord::Base, but I 
don''t seem to be able to find out how to make this happen.
I''ve tried
requiring the init.rb file for the plugin, but Ruby complains that it 
can''t find the source file.

Although there''s plenty of help from Google, here and the Wiki on 
writing a plugin, I can''t find a single piece of information to tell me
what I''m doing wrong in the testing. If anyone can help it would be
much
appreciated.

Many thanks.

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Jonathan Telfer wrote:
> I''m currently writing my first plugin, which is in the acts_as
style,
> but I can''t for the life of me work out how to get the testing
working.
> 
> The plugin is called ''acts_as_task_list'', and I want to
create a model
> just for testing this, so my test currently looks like this:
> 
> require ''test/unit''
> require ''active_record''
> 
> # This model is just for testing the plugin.
> class Contract < ActiveRecord::Base
>   acts_as_task_list
> end
> 
> # The first bit doesn''t work, so I haven''t got as far
> # as this bit yet.
> class ActsAsTaskListTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
>   # Replace this with your real tests.
>   def test_this_plugin
>     flunk
>   end
> end
> 
> As I expected, this test explodes because Ruby hasn''t loaded up
the
> plugin and included the acts_as_task_list into ActiveRecord::Base, but I 
> don''t seem to be able to find out how to make this happen.
I''ve tried
> requiring the init.rb file for the plugin, but Ruby complains that it 
> can''t find the source file.
> 
> Although there''s plenty of help from Google, here and the Wiki on 
> writing a plugin, I can''t find a single piece of information to
tell me
> what I''m doing wrong in the testing. If anyone can help it would
be much
> appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks.
I answered my own question by looking at the testing in the 
acts_as_classifiable plugin, inderting these two require lines at line 3 
of the code lets this code run:

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),
''../lib/acts_as_task_list'')
require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ''../init'')

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