rspec users - Nov 2007 - When you sometimes wonder how to test this??

Hi

Just something that I have been finding very helpful sometimes when I  
am stuck with "how could I test this?" moments is looking at the  
Rails test suite.

At the moment I am working on testing our custom error_messages_for  
methods and I have found looking at how the Rails tests in  
active_record_helper work helpful :-)

So just thought I''d share that.  Have other''s done the same?

Cheers
Shane

Shane Mingins
ELC Technologies (TM)
1921 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101


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One good idea is to add all your custom error messages to rails''  
default hash so you can change the wording of it whenever you want and  
the key can remain the same.  That way if you need to change it you  
don''t need to dive into your specs but can just change it in an  
initializer or environment.

Nathan Sutton
fowlduck at gmail.com
rspec edge revision 2910
rspec_on_rails edge revision 2909
rails edge revision 8175



On Nov 21, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Shane Mingins wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just something that I have been finding very helpful sometimes when  
> I am stuck with "how could I test this?" moments is looking at
the
> Rails test suite.
>
> At the moment I am working on testing our custom error_messages_for  
> methods and I have found looking at how the Rails tests in  
> active_record_helper work helpful :-)
>
> So just thought I''d share that.  Have other''s done the
same?
>
> Cheers
> Shane
>
> Shane Mingins
> ELC Technologies (TM)
> 1921 State Street
> Santa Barbara, CA 93101
>
>
> Phone: +64 4 568 6684
> Mobile: +64 21 435 586
> Email:  smingins at elctech.com
> AIM:     ShaneMingins
> Skype: shane.mingins
>
> (866) 863-7365 Tel - Santa Barbara Office
> (866) 893-1902 Fax - Santa Barbara Office
>
> +44 020 7504 1346 Tel - London Office
> +44 020 7504 1347 Fax - London Office
>
> http://www.elctech.com
>
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On Nov 21, 2007 2:43 PM, Nathan Sutton <nathan.sutton at gmail.com>
wrote:
> One good idea is to add all your custom error messages to rails''
default
> hash so you can change the wording of it whenever you want and the key can
> remain the same.  That way if you need to change it you don''t need
to dive
> into your specs but can just change it in an initializer or environment.
That''s how java frameworks like struts and spring work - you have a
Resource Bundle, which is a fancy name for a hash stored in a file :)
Also helps w/ i18n because you can just swap out files but use the
same keys.
>
>
>
>
> Nathan Sutton
> fowlduck at gmail.com
> rspec edge revision 2910
> rspec_on_rails edge revision 2909
> rails edge revision 8175
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 21, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Shane Mingins wrote:
>
>
>  Hi
>
> Just something that I have been finding very helpful sometimes when I am
> stuck with "how could I test this?" moments is looking at the
Rails test
> suite.
>
> At the moment I am working on testing our custom error_messages_for methods
> and I have found looking at how the Rails tests in active_record_helper
work
> helpful :-)
>
> So just thought I''d share that.  Have other''s done the
same?
>
> Cheers
> Shane
>
>
> Shane Mingins
> ELC Technologies (TM)
> 1921 State Street
> Santa Barbara, CA 93101
>
>
> Phone: +64 4 568 6684
> Mobile: +64 21 435 586
> Email:  smingins at elctech.com
> AIM:     ShaneMingins
> Skype: shane.mingins
>
> (866) 863-7365 Tel - Santa Barbara Office
> (866) 893-1902 Fax - Santa Barbara Office
>
> +44 020 7504 1346 Tel - London Office
> +44 020 7504 1347 Fax - London Office
>
> http://www.elctech.com
>
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