rspec users - Jul 2011 - rails: action helper for controller specs

Hey guys,

just wrote a helper for controller specs in the rails. Link to the gist -
https://gist.github.com/1080421 - to view with syntax highlight.

# Helper +action+ allows you to write something like
#
# describe "GET index" do
#   action { get :index }
#
#   context ''if user signed in'' do
#     before { sign_in user }
#     it { should respond_with :success }
#   end
#
#   context ''if user logged out'' do
#     it { should redirect_to sign_in_path }
#   end
# end
#
# instead of
#
# describe "GET index" do
#   context ''if user signed in'' do
#     before { sign_in user }
#     before { get :index }
#     it { should respond_with :success }
#   end
#
#   context ''if user logged out'' do
#     before { get :index }
#     it { should redirect_to sign_in_path }
#   end
# end


def action(&block)
  before { self.class.before(&block) unless action_added?(&block) }

end

def action_added?(&block)
  self.class.hooks[:before][:each].map(&:to_proc).include? block

end

What do you think?


- Alex
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rspec-users/attachments/20110713/40c35d18/attachment.html>

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Alexander Glushkov <cutalion at
gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> just wrote a helper for controller specs in the rails. Link to the gist -
> https://gist.github.com/1080421 - to view with syntax highlight.
>
> # Helper +action+ allows you to write something like
> #
> # describe "GET index" do
> #   action { get :index }
> #
> #   context ''if user signed in'' do
> #     before { sign_in user }
> #     it { should respond_with :success }
> #   end
> #
> #   context ''if user logged out'' do
> #     it { should redirect_to sign_in_path }
> #   end
> # end
> #
> # instead of
> #
> # describe "GET index" do
> #   context ''if user signed in'' do
> #     before { sign_in user }
> #     before { get :index }
> #     it { should respond_with :success }
> #   end
> #
> #   context ''if user logged out'' do
> #     before { get :index }
> #     it { should redirect_to sign_in_path }
> #   end
> # end
>
>
> def action(&block)
>   before { self.class.before(&block) unless action_added?(&block) }
>
>
>
> end
>
> def action_added?(&block)
>   self.class.hooks[:before][:each].map(&:to_proc).include? block
>
>
>
> end
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> - Alex
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users

So this is just an alias to `before`?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rspec-users/attachments/20110713/aee428e0/attachment.html>

Not exactly. It adds a before { ''your action call'' } to the
end of hooks
collection, 
so that it will called at the very end, right before the spec call. 
Compare two examples I provided in the comments.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rspec-users/attachments/20110713/0e28c8c9/attachment.html>