rspec users - Jun 2010 - Using RSpec and Cucumber with Rails 3 Engines

Hi,

I recently upgraded to Rails 3 beta, a few weeks ago. One thing I would
really like to do is to develop components of my application, because some
of them I''d really like to be able to reuse on other projects. I know
how to
make engines well enough, but it seems difficult or impossible to test them
with RSpec and Cucumber. At least with Cucumber, it won''t run because
it''s
not a normal Rails application.

Is there a way to get around this, or what alternative would you recommend?

Thanks,
Brandon

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Brandon Olivares
<programmer2188 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded to Rails 3 beta, a few weeks ago. One thing I would
> really like to do is to develop components of my application, because some
> of them I''d really like to be able to reuse on other projects. I
know how to
> make engines well enough, but it seems difficult or impossible to test them
> with RSpec and Cucumber. At least with Cucumber, it won''t run
because it''s
> not a normal Rails application.
>
> Is there a way to get around this, or what alternative would you recommend?
>
Have a test app that uses your engine, and that has cucumber and rspec tests.

Aslak
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
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On 29 Jun 2010, at 06:54, aslak hellesoy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Brandon Olivares
> <programmer2188 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I recently upgraded to Rails 3 beta, a few weeks ago. One thing I would
>> really like to do is to develop components of my application, because
some
>> of them I''d really like to be able to reuse on other projects.
I know how to
>> make engines well enough, but it seems difficult or impossible to test
them
>> with RSpec and Cucumber. At least with Cucumber, it won''t run
because it''s
>> not a normal Rails application.
>> 
>> Is there a way to get around this, or what alternative would you
recommend?
>> 
> 
> Have a test app that uses your engine, and that has cucumber and rspec
tests.
> 
> Aslak
A good example of an engine tested with Cucumber is:

http://github.com/21croissants/courgette

There''s a rails app in fixtures_rails_root. Check out the neat trick in
the config/environment.rb[1] to load the engine from wherever you want.

[1]
http://github.com/21croissants/courgette/blob/master/fixture_rails_root/config/environment.rb
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Brandon
>> 
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