From thenewjhp at gmail.com  Mon Sep  4 04:47:11 2006
From: thenewjhp at gmail.com (Jason Anderson)
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 01:47:11 -0700
Subject: [Rspec-users] RSpec style in Scriptaculous' unittest.js
In-Reply-To: <8d961d900608310300x4af50af6pfceec46fb29b034b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d961d900608310300x4af50af6pfceec46fb29b034b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <fd847b340609040147q4f1be0dqe3a32ca44b48a030@mail.gmail.com>

All,

I can't help noticing a bit of code that I keep repeating.

I find myself writing things like:

specify "should be empty" do
  @stack.should_be_empty
end

Instead, suppose rspec captured and stored the result of setup() and
used that value automatically if specify() is called without a block?
Here's how it might look, using the example from the rspec page:

context "BDD framework" do

 setup do
   BddFramework.new  # value stored by rspec
 end

 specify "should be adopted quickly"
 specify "should be intuitive"

end

Lovely, no?


Best,

Jason Anderson
thenewjhp at gmail.com

From aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com  Mon Sep  4 10:34:13 2006
From: aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com (aslak hellesoy)
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:34:13 +0200
Subject: [Rspec-users] RSpec style in Scriptaculous' unittest.js
In-Reply-To: <fd847b340609040147q4f1be0dqe3a32ca44b48a030@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d961d900608310300x4af50af6pfceec46fb29b034b@mail.gmail.com>
	<fd847b340609040147q4f1be0dqe3a32ca44b48a030@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8d961d900609040734y62980bf4h76f2ee6a28b327cf@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/4/06, Jason Anderson <thenewjhp at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I can't help noticing a bit of code that I keep repeating.
>

When starting a new topic, please don't reply to an existing mail.

> I find myself writing things like:
>
> specify "should be empty" do
>   @stack.should_be_empty
> end
>
> Instead, suppose rspec captured and stored the result of setup() and
> used that value automatically if specify() is called without a block?
> Here's how it might look, using the example from the rspec page:
>
> context "BDD framework" do
>
>  setup do
>    BddFramework.new  # value stored by rspec
>  end
>
>  specify "should be adopted quickly"
>  specify "should be intuitive"
>
> end
>
> Lovely, no?
>

Interesting approach to getting rid of duplication!

Please submit a feature request at Rubyforge. Or better - a patch.

Aslak

>
> Best,
>
> Jason Anderson
> thenewjhp at gmail.com
> _______________________________________________
> Rspec-users mailing list
> Rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
>

From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Tue Sep  5 09:05:31 2006
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:05:31 -0500
Subject: [Rspec-users] volunteers to prove out experiment
Message-ID: <57c63afe0609050605p1a727577ma42e02db25ebe327@mail.gmail.com>

All,

I've created a branch with the modules and directories restructured to
reflect three distinct modules:

Spec::Expectations
Spec::Mocks
Spec::Runner

Will the brave among you (with a little time on your hands - just a
little) please check out the branch, build and install the gem and let
me know if you run into any problems?

svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/branches/modularized
cd modularized
rake gem
gem install pkg/rspec-0.6.4.gem

I'd like to merge this to the trunk as soon as possible to minimize
the merge pain, but I want to make sure I'm not missing anything
glariing.

Thanks,
David

From aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com  Wed Sep  6 10:06:07 2006
From: aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com (aslak hellesoy)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:06:07 +0200
Subject: [Rspec-users] RSpec and Watir
Message-ID: <8d961d900609060706h29ab680egd908a18321dffbe2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,
(Sorry for cross-posting - please reply to only one list, preferrably
wtr-general)

I just started on a project where it looks like we might start using Watir.

I just whipped up a little example and some doco about how to (and
why) use RSpec with Watir. It's in RSpec's subversion under
trunk/vendor/watir
http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=797
http://rubyforge.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/vendor/watir/?root=rspec

There is a README where I try explain some of the benefits of the
RSpec/Watir combo - from a user/qa/tester perspective. RSpec's specdoc
feature, documentation and communication is key here.

Please take a look and give some feedback. I'd like to put this up on
RSpec's web page soon.

Aslak

From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Wed Sep  6 10:52:55 2006
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:52:55 -0500
Subject: [Rspec-users] support for arbitrary comparisons
Message-ID: <57c63afe0609060752q1e18edf9pd16ddf518a2f2191@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Williams contributed a patch to support arbitrary comparisons.
This is now in the trunk and will be part of the next release. So you
will now be able to do this:

result.should_be < 5
result.should_be >= 7

It also supports alternate syntax for should_be, should_match

result.should == 3
result.should =~ /regex/

Personally, I prefer should_be and should_match in these cases, as I
think they read better. Anyone else have opinions about that?

This patch also supports using methods that are not formatted like
predicates but act like them:

def whatever
  true
end

subject.should_be_whatever

I really object to this on philosophical grounds. Ruby predicates are
a beautiful construct, and I personally feel that if you're writing
methods like that you are violating a ruby aesthetic. If you agree
with that, then you have to agree that supporting them in rspec also
violates the same aesthetic. To that end, even though they work, they
will not be offically supported at this point (i.e. you can use them,
but they may go away some day).

I'm curious to hear thoughts on this as well.

Thanks again to Mike Williams for supporting arbitrary comparisons.
It's really a great addition.

Cheers,
David

From aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com  Wed Sep  6 11:47:16 2006
From: aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com (aslak hellesoy)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:47:16 +0200
Subject: [Rspec-users] [Rspec-devel] support for arbitrary comparisons
In-Reply-To: <57c63afe0609060752q1e18edf9pd16ddf518a2f2191@mail.gmail.com>
References: <57c63afe0609060752q1e18edf9pd16ddf518a2f2191@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8d961d900609060847p53a9ac03n2053c9745771bbca@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/6/06, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike Williams contributed a patch to support arbitrary comparisons.
> This is now in the trunk and will be part of the next release. So you
> will now be able to do this:
>
> result.should_be < 5
> result.should_be >= 7
>
> It also supports alternate syntax for should_be, should_match
>
> result.should == 3
> result.should =~ /regex/
>
> Personally, I prefer should_be and should_match in these cases, as I
> think they read better. Anyone else have opinions about that?
>

I prefer should_match and should_equal too, but I don't expect
everyone to feel the same. I think it's great to support both.

I don't see a problem with making this official now and add it to the
website documentation. Dave's cheatsheet (which is not in svn - grr)
should be updated too.

> This patch also supports using methods that are not formatted like
> predicates but act like them:
>
> def whatever
>   true
> end
>
> subject.should_be_whatever
>
> I really object to this on philosophical grounds. Ruby predicates are
> a beautiful construct, and I personally feel that if you're writing
> methods like that you are violating a ruby aesthetic. If you agree
> with that, then you have to agree that supporting them in rspec also
> violates the same aesthetic. To that end, even though they work, they
> will not be offically supported at this point (i.e. you can use them,
> but they may go away some day).
>

I agree we shouldn't support non-questionmark "predicates". Let's make
the day support for it goes away be today ;-)

> I'm curious to hear thoughts on this as well.
>
> Thanks again to Mike Williams for supporting arbitrary comparisons.
> It's really a great addition.
>
> Cheers,
> David
> _______________________________________________
> Rspec-devel mailing list
> Rspec-devel at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-devel
>

From geeksam at gmail.com  Wed Sep  6 13:53:19 2006
From: geeksam at gmail.com (Sam Livingston-Gray)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:53:19 -0700
Subject: [Rspec-users] DRb error when using rails_spec on OS X
Message-ID: <7beb6b8c0609061053g4d117734kae81859c8cc50e59@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, all-

I started playing with RSpec in a new Rails app.  I've installed the
plugin and bootstrapped it, and run 'script/rails_spec_runner' (not
rails_spec_server as the website currently reads, btw) in a separate
shell, then in another shell I run 'script/rails_spec' and get the
following:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in `getaddrinfo': getaddrinfo:
No address associated with nodename (SocketError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in `open_server_inaddr_any'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:860:in `open_server'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:756:in `open_server'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:754:in `open_server'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1336:in `initialize'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1624:in `start_service'
        from script/rails_spec:6

Running 'rake spec:models' does work, though with the same overhead of
'rake test:units'.

I'm on Mac OS 10.4.7 running ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24)
[powerpc-darwin8.4.0] and RSpec 0.6.3.  The firewall on this machine
is active, but I've opened port 8989 for both TCP and UDP (you know,
just in case) with no change in behavior.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Sam

From aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com  Wed Sep  6 15:12:46 2006
From: aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com (aslak hellesoy)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:12:46 +0200
Subject: [Rspec-users] DRb error when using rails_spec on OS X
In-Reply-To: <7beb6b8c0609061053g4d117734kae81859c8cc50e59@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7beb6b8c0609061053g4d117734kae81859c8cc50e59@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8d961d900609061212m4e6fe5bctfa435b3b75079d79@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/6/06, Sam Livingston-Gray <geeksam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all-
>
> I started playing with RSpec in a new Rails app.  I've installed the
> plugin and bootstrapped it, and run 'script/rails_spec_runner' (not
> rails_spec_server as the website currently reads, btw)

I've fixed this on trunk. The file will from now on be called
script/rails_spec_server as the docs say.

> in a separate
> shell, then in another shell I run 'script/rails_spec' and get the
> following:
>

That should give you the same as if you run just 'spec' (the standard
rspec help). What you should do is  'script/rails_spec spec' although
your problem seems to be related to something else.

> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in `getaddrinfo': getaddrinfo:
> No address associated with nodename (SocketError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in `open_server_inaddr_any'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:860:in `open_server'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:756:in `open_server'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:754:in `open_server'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1336:in `initialize'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1624:in `start_service'
>         from script/rails_spec:6
>
> Running 'rake spec:models' does work, though with the same overhead of
> 'rake test:units'.
>
> I'm on Mac OS 10.4.7 running ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24)
> [powerpc-darwin8.4.0] and RSpec 0.6.3.  The firewall on this machine


Weird. I can't reproduce this. I have the same versions of everything as you.
It's probably a drb issue.

> is active, but I've opened port 8989 for both TCP and UDP (you know,
> just in case) with no change in behavior.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

Let's determine whether it's a pure Drb problem. Can you get this
example to work?
=> http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ospace.html#UG

If that doesn't work your problem is outside rspec. Let me know how it
goes and I'll dig further.

Aslak

> Thanks,
> -Sam
> _______________________________________________
> Rspec-users mailing list
> Rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
>

From aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com  Wed Sep  6 15:34:31 2006
From: aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com (aslak hellesoy)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:34:31 +0200
Subject: [Rspec-users] DRb error when using rails_spec on OS X
In-Reply-To: <8d961d900609061212m4e6fe5bctfa435b3b75079d79@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7beb6b8c0609061053g4d117734kae81859c8cc50e59@mail.gmail.com>
	<8d961d900609061212m4e6fe5bctfa435b3b75079d79@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8d961d900609061234o6abc9345gbce16f1d44276ebf@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/6/06, aslak hellesoy <aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Sam Livingston-Gray <geeksam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, all-
> >
> > I started playing with RSpec in a new Rails app.  I've installed the
> > plugin and bootstrapped it, and run 'script/rails_spec_runner' (not
> > rails_spec_server as the website currently reads, btw)
>
> I've fixed this on trunk. The file will from now on be called
> script/rails_spec_server as the docs say.
>
> > in a separate
> > shell, then in another shell I run 'script/rails_spec' and get the
> > following:
> >
>
> That should give you the same as if you run just 'spec' (the standard
> rspec help). What you should do is  'script/rails_spec spec' although
> your problem seems to be related to something else.
>
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in `getaddrinfo': getaddrinfo:
> > No address associated with nodename (SocketError)
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in `open_server_inaddr_any'
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:860:in `open_server'
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:756:in `open_server'
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:754:in `open_server'
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1336:in `initialize'
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1624:in `start_service'
> >         from script/rails_spec:6
> >
> > Running 'rake spec:models' does work, though with the same overhead of
> > 'rake test:units'.
> >
> > I'm on Mac OS 10.4.7 running ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24)
> > [powerpc-darwin8.4.0] and RSpec 0.6.3.  The firewall on this machine
>
>
> Weird. I can't reproduce this. I have the same versions of everything as you.
> It's probably a drb issue.
>
> > is active, but I've opened port 8989 for both TCP and UDP (you know,
> > just in case) with no change in behavior.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
>
> Let's determine whether it's a pure Drb problem. Can you get this
> example to work?
> => http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ospace.html#UG
>
> If that doesn't work your problem is outside rspec. Let me know how it
> goes and I'll dig further.
>

Try these:

a) Replace 'druby://localhost:8989' with 'druby://localhost:0' in both
rails_spec and rails_spec_runner

b) Replace 'druby://localhost:8989' with
'druby://localhost.localdomain:8989:' in both rails_spec and
rails_spec_runner

c) Replace 'druby://localhost:8989' with 'druby://127.0.0.1:8989:' in
both rails_spec and rails_spec_runner

Do any of these get you further?

Aslak

> Aslak
>
> > Thanks,
> > -Sam
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rspec-users mailing list
> > Rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
> >
>

From geeksam at gmail.com  Thu Sep  7 00:44:29 2006
From: geeksam at gmail.com (Sam Livingston-Gray)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:44:29 -0700
Subject: [Rspec-users] DRb error when using rails_spec on OS X
In-Reply-To: <8d961d900609061234o6abc9345gbce16f1d44276ebf@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7beb6b8c0609061053g4d117734kae81859c8cc50e59@mail.gmail.com>
	<8d961d900609061212m4e6fe5bctfa435b3b75079d79@mail.gmail.com>
	<8d961d900609061234o6abc9345gbce16f1d44276ebf@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7beb6b8c0609062144t4a7c4ecbh56ffd00558145694@mail.gmail.com>

> > Weird. I can't reproduce this. I have the same versions of everything as you.
> > It's probably a drb issue.

Looks like it, yes.

> > Let's determine whether it's a pure Drb problem. Can you get this
> > example to work?
> > => http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ospace.html#UG
> >
> > If that doesn't work your problem is outside rspec. Let me know how it
> > goes and I'll dig further.

Nope, same issue (and therefore, officially Not Your Problem).  (=

> Try these:
>
> a) Replace 'druby://localhost:8989' with 'druby://localhost:0' in both
> rails_spec and rails_spec_runner

Same behavior...

> b) Replace 'druby://localhost:8989' with
> 'druby://localhost.localdomain:8989:' in both rails_spec and
> rails_spec_runner

Doing this, rails_spec_runner aborts with the following:
Loading Rails environment
Ready
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:862:in `initialize': getaddrinfo:
No address associated with nodename (SocketError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:862:in `open_server'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:756:in `open_server'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:754:in `open_server'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1336:in `initialize'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1624:in `start_service'
        from script/rails_spec_runner:47

> c) Replace 'druby://localhost:8989' with 'druby://127.0.0.1:8989:' in
> both rails_spec and rails_spec_runner

Same as (a), above.

Thanks for the help, though.  The spec runner will probably work on
the Windows box where I've been doing most of my for-pay Rails dev
anyway; this was certainly enough for me to get a flavor of using
RSpect with Rails.  (It's certainly no slower than the Test::Unit
stuff... and as a bonus, it doesn't overload %w( unit functional
integration ).  (=

-Sam

From aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com  Thu Sep  7 05:43:52 2006
From: aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com (aslak hellesoy)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:43:52 +0200
Subject: [Rspec-users] Dead easy Watir AND Selenium
Message-ID: <8d961d900609070243k5ac8e877p5333ced152e47874@mail.gmail.com>

Yesterday I added some Watir examples to RSpec's svn.
Today I added some Selenium (actually - Selenium Remote Control) examples.

It's dead easy to use both, and the Ruby code you end up writing is
actually quite similar. Here's a taste:

== Watir ==
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/rspec_watir'

context "Google's search page" do

  setup do
    @browser.goto('http://www.google.com')
  end

  specify "should find rspec's home page" do
    @browser.text_field(:name, "q").set("rspec")
    @browser.button(:name, "btnG").click
    @browser.contains_text("rspec.rubyforge.org").should_be(true)
  end

  specify "should not find Ali G when I search for rspec" do
    @browser.text_field(:name, "q").set("rspec")
    @browser.button(:name, "btnG").click
    @browser.contains_text("Ali G").should_be(false)
  end

end

== Selenium ==
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/rspec_selenium'

context "Google's search page" do

  setup do
    @browser = Selenium::SeleneseInterpreter.new("localhost", 4444,
"*firefox", "http://www.google.no", 10000)
    @browser.start
    @browser.open('http://www.google.no')
  end

  specify "should find rspec's home page" do
    @browser.type "name=q", "rspec"
    @browser.click_and_wait "name=btnG"
    @browser.is_text_present("rspec.rubyforge.org").should_be(true)
  end

  specify "should not find Ali G when I search for rspec" do
    @browser.type "name=q", "rspec"
    @browser.click_and_wait "name=btnG"
    @browser.is_text_present("Ali G").should_be(false)
  end

end

From micah at 8thlight.com  Wed Sep 13 02:50:46 2006
From: micah at 8thlight.com (Micah Martin)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:50:46 -0500
Subject: [Rspec-users] stale spec runner?
Message-ID: <E8EF5AF6-499F-45FB-B014-DCD064E4FF54@8thlight.com>

I've been working with the RSpec on Rails plugin.  Great job guys!

The Rails spec runner (server) definitely speeds things up nicely.   
But I'm having some trouble keeping it functional.  When I start the  
server, the first spec execution runs fine.  Every following  
execution fails though. Each spec complains about the  
'controller_path' missing from my controller.  Odd.  This only seems  
to affect controller specs.  I've tried a few things to no avail.   
Any tips?

1)
NoMethodError in 'Guesser play start'
undefined method `controller_path' for GuesserController:Class
./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:18:in `play start'
./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:17:in `play start'

2)
NoMethodError in 'Guesser game gets created on new game'
undefined method `controller_path' for GuesserController:Class
./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:25:in `game gets created on new game'
./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:23:in `game gets created on new game'

3)
NoMethodError in 'Guesser game id in hidden input'
undefined method `controller_path' for GuesserController:Class
./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:32:in `game id in hidden input'
./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:31:in `game id in hidden input'

4)
NoMethodError in 'Guesser first guess gets saved'
undefined method `controller_path' for GuesserController:Class
./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:38:in `first guess gets saved'
./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:37:in `first guess gets saved'


Micah Martin
8th Light, Inc.
www.8thlight.com


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From srbaker at pobox.com  Wed Sep 13 02:57:15 2006
From: srbaker at pobox.com (Steven R. Baker)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:57:15 -0700
Subject: [Rspec-users] stale spec runner?
In-Reply-To: <E8EF5AF6-499F-45FB-B014-DCD064E4FF54@8thlight.com>
References: <E8EF5AF6-499F-45FB-B014-DCD064E4FF54@8thlight.com>
Message-ID: <78056024-90AA-4EF9-AB3A-026A3ED32A01@pobox.com>


> I've been working with the RSpec on Rails plugin.  Great job guys!
>
> The Rails spec runner (server) definitely speeds things up nicely.   
> But I'm having some trouble keeping it functional.  When I start  
> the server, the first spec execution runs fine.  Every following  
> execution fails though. Each spec complains about the  
> 'controller_path' missing from my controller.  Odd.  This only  
> seems to affect controller specs.  I've tried a few things to no  
> avail.  Any tips?

This is a pretty simple backtrace; syntax errors.

Let's see the code that's generating these errors.

-Steven


From aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com  Wed Sep 13 03:14:23 2006
From: aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com (aslak hellesoy)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:14:23 +0200
Subject: [Rspec-users] stale spec runner?
In-Reply-To: <E8EF5AF6-499F-45FB-B014-DCD064E4FF54@8thlight.com>
References: <E8EF5AF6-499F-45FB-B014-DCD064E4FF54@8thlight.com>
Message-ID: <8d961d900609130014v2278a458jbb6570c88f960264@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/13/06, Micah Martin <micah at 8thlight.com> wrote:
> I've been working with the RSpec on Rails plugin.  Great job guys!
>
> The Rails spec runner (server) definitely speeds things up nicely.  But I'm
> having some trouble keeping it functional.  When I start the server, the
> first spec execution runs fine.  Every following execution fails though.
> Each spec complains about the 'controller_path' missing from my controller.
> Odd.  This only seems to affect controller specs.  I've tried a few things
> to no avail.  Any tips?
>
> 1)
> NoMethodError in 'Guesser play start'
> undefined method `controller_path' for GuesserController:Class
> ./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:18:in `play start'
> ./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:17:in `play start'
>
> 2)
> NoMethodError in 'Guesser game gets created on new game'
> undefined method `controller_path' for GuesserController:Class
> ./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:25:in `game gets created
> on new game'
> ./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:23:in `game gets created
> on new game'
>
> 3)
> NoMethodError in 'Guesser game id in hidden input'
> undefined method `controller_path' for GuesserController:Class
> ./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:32:in `game id in hidden
> input'
> ./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:31:in `game id in hidden
> input'
>
> 4)
> NoMethodError in 'Guesser first guess gets saved'
> undefined method `controller_path' for GuesserController:Class
> ./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:38:in `first guess gets
> saved'
> ./spec/controllers/guesser_spec.rb:37:in `first guess gets
> saved'
>

I think this might be fixed on trunk. Try this:

sudo gem uninstall rspec
Get the trunk from svn
rake gem
sudo gem install pkg/rspec....gem
install rspec_on_rails from trunk instead of tagged version

If this works, everything should be fine in the 0.6.4, which is right
around the corner

Aslak

>
> Micah Martin
> 8th Light, Inc.
> www.8thlight.com
>
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From jerry.west at ntlworld.com  Fri Sep 29 17:49:46 2006
From: jerry.west at ntlworld.com (Jerry West)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:49:46 +0100
Subject: [Rspec-users] Living Dangerously?
Message-ID: <451D94FA.8030804@ntlworld.com>

how can I get the benefits of integration testing with Rspec on Rails 
REL_0_6_3, please?

When I first started playing with Rspec on Rails, I hacked 
spec_helper.rb to include the IntegrationTest interface (diff below) as 
it was the minimum change I could make to get the the ability to run 
multiple actions across controllers in my spec.  I use it to specify 
authenticated sessions and stuff.  No, I didn't know what I was doing, 
but it seemed to work.

Today it bit me.  I most-always run my specs separately so I know what's 
failed but today I was doing some regression testing so ran rake 
spec:controllers for the first time (gasp!).

Specs started to fail on the basic "controller.should_be_instance_of ...":

 <ApreviousController> should be an instance of <ThisNewController>

A simple trace in lib/rspec_on_rails.rb (around lines 43-48) shows the 
following...

 >>>>>looking for AccountController
 >>>>>found #<AccountController:0xb74cff20>
(next test)
 >>>>>looking for FeedbackController
 >>>>>found #<AccountController:0xb74ce288>
 >>>>>looking for FeedbackController
 >>>>>found #<AccountController:0xb74ce288>

What really messes my brain is that the call to FeedbackController.new 
is returning an AccountController.   Ouch.  I'm messing something up big 
time.  Each spec runs fine on its own by the way, with the trace as 
you'd expect.

Two questions (perhaps one)

1.  I am now using REL_0_6_3; how can I get the benefits of integration 
testing without this hack please?  If I take it out, my cross controller 
(routed) url's fail.

2.  If I have to keep the hack, is it likely that my specs are failing 
by failing to fail ?  In other words - can I trust the output any more?

Many thanks,
  Jerry

*** spec_helper.orig    2006-09-29 21:22:40.000000000 +0100
--- spec_helper.rb      2006-09-29 21:29:52.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 27,34 ****
      class Context
        def before_context_eval
          inherit SpecTestCase
!         inherit ActionController::IntegrationTest
        end
      end
    end
***************


From jerry.west at ntlworld.com  Fri Sep 29 18:30:50 2006
From: jerry.west at ntlworld.com (Jerry West)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:30:50 +0100
Subject: [Rspec-users] Still living dangerously
Message-ID: <451D9E9A.6070708@ntlworld.com>

5 seconds after my last post, I twigged why a call to 
FeedbackController.new would return an AccountController - the 
IntegrationTest must intercept the call and sure enough it does: 
action_controller/integration,rb: 315-339 and rdebug shows that this is 
indeed the cause. 

I still don't see how the intercept is established - I can't see where 
the call to extend ActionController::Base occurs *except* in 
IntegrationTest::process and if we're calling that why doesn't it also 
clear the cache (line:235).  I told you I didn't know what I doing!  
More as it develops.

But my question still stands - how does one (correctly) write 
Integration style specs, please?

Many thanks,
  Jerry