similar to: unit tests vs database state

Ezra et al: I have this problem: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2006-December/000578.html Any progress on it? Or are unit tests simply impossible for now? -- Phlip http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!

BackgrounDRbers: We pass a data batch to a background task for processing. When it finishes, our GUI updates correctly (using the results hash). But the data records don''t appear in the Rails connection to the database. Our stack is the HEAD BackgrounDRb, Rails 1.1.6, MySQL, and Apache/mongrel. As soon as I whack the background process with script/backgroundrb stop, the data records

Rubies & Acceptance Testers: For those of you not doing acceptance tests yet, I have a very slick test rig to show off. I haven''t demo-ized it yet, so please accept these diverse audiovisual displays as if they were a united whole! We start with MiniRubyWiki, at this demo: http://www.zeroplayer.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TestFlea Click on any of the green bars. Now imagine if the left

How to detect that from the files? -- Phlip http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!

Railsers: As usual for a product written very rapidly, most of its documentation assumes some other documentation told you something critical. For example, the file form_helper.rb tempts me with this documentation: # <% form_for :person, @person, :url => { :action => "update" }, :builder => LabellingFormBuilder do |f| %> That''s beautiful. Now what do I

RSpeckers: I went with RSpec instead of Systir because I downloaded and installed the former first. (I know that''s not exactly a ringing endorsement! ;-) I want to compete with FIT and Fitnesse, like this: http://www.zeroplayer.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TestFlea#tropism (Click on a Green Bar to distend one test case.) I want a domain-specific language in the parchment-colored area on the

My latest stupid web trick, built, with love, in Rails: http://wordie.org Make lists of words. See who else likes the same words. Basically, it''s a dating site. Built on thanksgiving while half-watching football and launched yesterday. In other words, half-baked, but I thought some of you might find it mildly amusing. John ____________________________ John McGrath Squirl: a site for

This has been asked before, never well attended perhaps. Any thoughts on testing your workers? Current implementation is broken. An empty test case like this: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/workers/market_summary_worker" require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb.rb" require

Railsters: ActiveRecord''s validation system puts other database systems to shame. However, the newbies might not know how to write a regexp that excludes a match, instead of tests for it. Understand - I''m just asking this question to help them. I have been using Regexps since ''grep'' on Xenix! But the newbies here might not know how to do this:

Phlip wrote: > Can I fix it by adding a view called ''inventories''? That worked, because I have a sufficiently late version of MySQL. Next question. What does "Set up a default route" mean? When I read... http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Routes ...it reminds me of the Apache documentation for mod_rewrite. I hope someone appreciates the candor of my

I''ve been working through the book ''Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce'' which is very heavy on Test Driven Development. As in, you have to write tests for scaffolding methods and validations and crap like that. And then they fail. And you KNOW its the test not the method. So you spend 2x the time writing a test that has to be adapted when requirements change. You

Railsters: Despite Rails being the only Web platform designed for TDD, a lot of its test infrastructure is still "cargo cult" - imitating other test rigs instead of understanding their principles. Most importantly, tests should run instantly. There''s no excuse for breaking this rule, and if you invent a platform that can''t obey it then you are doing something

Railsers: The documentation for *.rhtml views invariably mentions *.rxml views. They sound like a Good Thing, because some of my generating code mixes Ruby and HTML so densely that the code is full of %><% markers. Dropping down to only one language would be a blessing. However, this documentation invariably avoids mentioning one tiny, insignificant detail: How do you inject raw HTML

I upgraded to Rails 1.2.1 and deployed to my ISP, who has 1.2.1 ready and waiting. The site disappeared into an HTTP 500 error. So I get into the site, run public/dispatch.cgi or dispatch.rb, and get this: # ./dispatch.rb Status: 400 Bad Request /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:405:in `to_constant_name'': Anonymous modules have no

Hi all (and Ezra), I couldn''t get my rake tasks to work after installing the plugin -- until I added a line at top of to test_helper.rb: require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../script/backgroundrb/lib/backgroundrb.rb") Is this in the docs? -- Charles Brian Quinn www.seebq.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Railsers: I switched from MySQL to Sqlite3 for Test-Driven Development. It meant the difference between (Long term, I want to understand the db:migrate system well enough that I can run a long test, occassionally, that migrates everything to MySQL and retests it there. That will prevent nasty surprises at deployment time. But that''s not the current question!) Because I don''t

RSpec-ers: I''m aware this is quite the FAQ. I have probably asked it myself, but I just can''t Google up anything but others asking it. I grabbed the source to Beast, to use as a Rails project uninfluenced by me, or RSpec. Then I installed the CURRENT version of RSpec and rspec_on_rails, and set up a model spec on Post. Here''s the spec_helper.rb lines:

Hello: I have radio buttons like this: <% fields_for :goalhist do |g| %> <table> <tr> <td align=left><%= radio_button_tag (''duedate'', 0, checked = false, options = {:onclick => ""}) %> &nbsp;&nbsp;Start now </td> </tr> <tr id="detailed" style="display: none"><td colspan=2>

hi everyone.. i''m a high school teacher who wrote a webapp in PHP and MySQL for my curriculum.. i use it to keep attendance, take notes per student or class and keep track of activities. i would like to soup it up and have read both the pickax and version 2 of agile web dev... now i''m starting to work and i''d like to rename columns and relationships in the database so

Hi, I am using collection_select to build a drop down list. I would like to have the current value selected. How can I do that? My current code is straight from the example in Pragmatic Programmers book [2nd ed, p480] copying here for reference. <%= @users = User.find(:all, :order => "name" ) form.collection_select(:name, @users, :id, :name) %> I went through the api docs