Rails - May 2009 - Generated test files and bad require 'test_helper'

Why do the generated test files have: require ''test_helper''

It cannot obviously find the file because it''s located in a
subdirectory. That''s annoying.
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It finds it ok for me when run from rake test but not from ruby
test/unit/test.rb
I change all the require lines to

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''

I suspect there is a better way of achieving this effect

Colin

2009/5/14 Fernando Perez
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>
> Why do the generated test files have: require
''test_helper''
>
> It cannot obviously find the file because it''s located in a
> subdirectory. That''s annoying.
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> >
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Colin Law wrote:
> It finds it ok for me when run from rake test but not from ruby
> test/unit/test.rb
> I change all the require lines to
> 
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''
> 
> I suspect there is a better way of achieving this effect
Thanks Colin for your input. Actually it works the same for me (I never 
noticed), but I often find myself only running a little set of tests and 
not always the full rake test.
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Fernando Perez wrote:
> Colin Law wrote:
>> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''
>>
>> I suspect there is a better way of achieving this effect
> Thanks Colin for your input. Actually it works the same for me (I never 
> noticed), but I often find myself only running a little set of tests and 
> not always the full rake test.
Some editors run tests in the "wrong" folder - if they can run unit
tests at all
- so that File.dirname mishmash is crucial for Rails''s tests. No idea
why the
newer version took it out!

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On May 14, 10:20 pm, Phlip
<phlip2...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Fernando Perez wrote:
> > Colin Law wrote:
> >> require File.dirname(__FILE__) +
''/../test_helper''
>
> >> I suspect there is a better way of achieving this effect
> > Thanks Colin for your input. Actually it works the same for me (I
never
> > noticed), but I often find myself only running a little set of tests
and
> > not always the full rake test.
>
> Some editors run tests in the "wrong" folder - if they can run
unit tests at all
> - so that File.dirname mishmash is crucial for Rails''s tests. No
idea why the
> newer version took it out!
Take a look at the comments for
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e8170805df1a32119db9d328daee1239b338ac71

Fred
>
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Frederick Cheung wrote:
>> Some editors run tests in the "wrong" folder - if they can
run unit tests at all
>> - so that File.dirname mishmash is crucial for Rails''s tests.
No idea why the
>> newer version took it out!
> 
> Take a look at the comments for
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e8170805df1a32119db9d328daee1239b338ac71
"different relative requires of the same file cause Ruby to load it
multiple
times. This causes bugs. Fixing it is the point of this change."

Then use File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
''/../test_helper.rb'').

expand_path - if I spelled it right - goes to the OS filesystem for the uniquely
correct path, right?

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> "different relative requires of the same file cause Ruby to load it
multiple
> times. This causes bugs. Fixing it is the point of this change."
> 
> Then use File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
''/../test_helper.rb'').
> 
> expand_path - if I spelled it right - goes to the OS filesystem for the
uniquely
> correct path, right?
"File.expand_path doesn’t behave on Windows". It always comes back to
that, huh? (-:

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