how can I get the benefits of integration testing with Rspec on Rails
REL_0_6_3, please?
When I first started playing with Rspec on Rails, I hacked
spec_helper.rb to include the IntegrationTest interface (diff below) as
it was the minimum change I could make to get the the ability to run
multiple actions across controllers in my spec. I use it to specify
authenticated sessions and stuff. No, I didn''t know what I was doing,
but it seemed to work.
Today it bit me. I most-always run my specs separately so I know
what''s
failed but today I was doing some regression testing so ran rake
spec:controllers for the first time (gasp!).
Specs started to fail on the basic "controller.should_be_instance_of
...":
<ApreviousController> should be an instance of <ThisNewController>
A simple trace in lib/rspec_on_rails.rb (around lines 43-48) shows the
following...
>>>>>looking for AccountController
>>>>>found #<AccountController:0xb74cff20>
(next test)
>>>>>looking for FeedbackController
>>>>>found #<AccountController:0xb74ce288>
>>>>>looking for FeedbackController
>>>>>found #<AccountController:0xb74ce288>
What really messes my brain is that the call to FeedbackController.new
is returning an AccountController. Ouch. I''m messing something up
big
time. Each spec runs fine on its own by the way, with the trace as
you''d expect.
Two questions (perhaps one)
1. I am now using REL_0_6_3; how can I get the benefits of integration
testing without this hack please? If I take it out, my cross controller
(routed) url''s fail.
2. If I have to keep the hack, is it likely that my specs are failing
by failing to fail ? In other words - can I trust the output any more?
Many thanks,
Jerry
*** spec_helper.orig 2006-09-29 21:22:40.000000000 +0100
--- spec_helper.rb 2006-09-29 21:29:52.000000000 +0100
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*** 27,34 ****
class Context
def before_context_eval
inherit SpecTestCase
! inherit ActionController::IntegrationTest
end
end
end
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