similar to: rpec_scaffold and nested resources

in my latest blog posting :http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/articles/2008/01/29/why-i-dont-mind-using-rspec-in-fact-ive-come-to-love-it -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

I just discovered James Golick''s resource_controller plugin http://jamesgolick.com/resource_controller after spending another stretch of boredom making the changes to nest yet another rails resource controller. I''d actually slowed down this time to think about what I was doing in hopes of automating the task. I''ve tended to use script/generate rspec_scaffold to get

I''m now in the process of facing converting a rails app to use Ruby 1.9.1. Has anyone figured out how to use 1.9 with the RSpec bundle in textmate and preferably how to switch back and forth? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn:

I''m working on porting our app. Do I need to upgrade rspec from 1.1.3? If so which version. BTW the installation doc at http://rspec.info/documentation/rails/install.html seems to be stuck in the pre-git days. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

Passenger configuration selects which ruby executable to use via a global configuration variable (at least for Apache, I assume it''s the same for Nginx). I''m in a situation where I''ve got at least one rails app I''d like to run on 1.9 while others remain on 1.8. This is for my development machine running OS X 10.6. Normally I just use the Passenger PrefPane,

I''m having trouble using autotest with rspec on a non-rails project. my Rspec gem is version 1.0.8, ZenTest is 3.6.2 project structure $ ls * lib: parser.rb spec: parser_spec.rb autotest finds and runs the spec, but it won''t detect changes to lib/parser.rb I know it''s something stupid, but... help? -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby

In using stories, I find myself wanting to build scenarios on top of each other, For example I want something like Scenario: The user logs on Given a And b When c And d Then e And f Scenario: The user changes his password Given the user logs on And g Then h In other words, I''d like to write the second scenario starting with the ''state'' produced by

Today I worked on adding email exception notification to some ancillary background processes for a Rails app. Since I was already using Jamis'' exception notification plugin to notify me of errors in controllers for the web app, I figured that the path of least resistance was to try to figure out how to hook it into the daemon code. At first it looked easy. I just needed to

I''ve gotten quite a bit out of Pat Maddox''s screencast http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/10/8/story-runner-top-to-bottom-screencast One thing I''m not sure of is the feature where he writes things like: When "I POST to", "/articles", :post => {:title => "Title", :body => "Body") do | path, params| post_via_redirect

I''m trying to write a story for a Rails app which involves using the attachment_fu plugin to upload images. After blunting my pick on this for a while, google found me this: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/134743#600831 So it seems that there''s a hole in Rails integration testing and multipart form posting. David offered to incorporate a patch to story runner at the end of the

A colleague just came in and asked me about a problem he was having with stub_render, which reminded me of another issue he had a week or so ago, which seems related. Let me start with the earlier issue. He was trying to write specs for a method which sends the same message possibly multiple times, but with different arguments under different calling conditions. He wanted to write

At work we''ve got a rather complex app with both specs and tests. Our default rake task runs all our our tests and specs. We''ve also got separate rake tasks to run groups of tests and specs in the various subdirectories. The default task simply lists all the individual tasks as pre-reqs. We do a lot of branching and merging, so we really want to run all of the tests and specs

I''m trying to use stories to drive some high-level design. I''ve got some branching scenarios where I want to follow a scenario, to establish a base situation, and then have different scenarios which ''branch'' out from that state, possibly several levels deep. I asked a bit about this a few days ago, and David pointed out the rather undocumented GivenScenario

I was just playing around with the new routing dsl to answer someone''s question on the general rails forum. I wanted to see how Rails3 handled globbed routes. So I added this to routes.rb get ''forum/*path'' , ''forum#show'' And had the show action just display the params. with a URL of /forum/a/b/c I got {"path" => "a/b/c"}

Subject: [ANN] ri_cal 0.7.0 Released ri_cal version 0.7.0 has been released! * <http://ri-cal.rubyforge.org/> * <by Rick DeNatale> A new Ruby implementation of RFC2445 iCalendar. The existing Ruby iCalendar libraries (e.g. icalendar, vpim) provide for parsing and generating icalendar files, but do not support important things like enumerating occurrences of repeating events. This

This feels more like a question to ask the core list, forgive me if I trespass. I''ve been trying to help one of my cow orkers get through a sticky problem. He''s got a fairly complex nested form to update a model and its children. He''s started adding some validations, and we''ve encountered a number of issues: First he had a validation on one of the child

I''m wanting to write a spec that a model is applying an :order option to a find call, but I don''t want to completely specify all of the find parameters. So I want to write something like this, say in a controller spec User.should_receive(:find).with(:all, hash_with_at_least(:order => ''user.name ASC'')) get ''index'', :sort =>

I finally plunked down for the beta RSpec bundle and I''m working through the initial example. Although I''m a fairly experienced RSpec user, I''m stlll learning new tricks. Anyway, I''m going though the mastermind example, and everything is going well, except that I decided to also try out the Textmate bundle for Cucumber. I decided to use Ben Mabey''s

This is a follow-up to the thread ending with: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/vpim-talk/2008/000120.html I too am in search of some ruby parser for icalendar which properly handles timezones on the datetimes in the icalendar RFC. As I understand it there are actually three types of times. 1) UTC times with a string form of yyyymmddThhmmssZ note the trailing Z indicates zulu time aka utc. 2)

I''ve never tried to use them myself, but another list member brought this up in another thread. He was using a message expectation in a story step, and couldn''t get it to fail. Looking at what he was doing, it didn''t look to me that it would ever succeed, which got me thinking. Message expectations are implemented in rspec by asking the mock framework to verify them