[rspec-users] Writing specs for a plugin module for ActionController

[David Chelimsky]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Leslie Freeman
<lesliefreeman3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to spec a plugin that includes a module that adds functionality
> to ActionController below is what I've come up with:
>
> # vendor/plugins/custom_attribute_fu/spec/active_record_spec.rb
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec_helper'
>
> class TestPerson < ActiveRecord::Base
> end
>
> class TestPeopleController < ActionController::Base
>  #calling defines_custom_attributes should add the
> custom_attribute_definitions method, I've defined it explicitly for now to
> just get the tests running
>  #defines_custom_attributes
>
>  def custom_attribute_definitions
>  end
> end
>
> describe TestPeopleController do
>
>  describe "handling GET /custom_attribute_definitions" do
>
>    before(:each) do
>      @controller = TestPeopleController.new
>      @request     = ActionController::TestRequest.new
>      @response    = ActionController::TestResponse.new
>    end
>
>    def do_get
>      get :custom_attribute_definitions
>    end
>
>    it "should be successful" do
>      do_get
>      response.should be_success
>    end
>
>  end
> end
>
> When I run the spec I get:
>
> 1)
> ActionView::TemplateError in 'TestPeopleController handling GET
> /custom_attribute_definitions should be successful'
> undefined method `custom_attribute_definitions' for TestPerson(id: integer,
> name: string):Class
>
> What I don't understand is that why get :custom_attribute_definitions is
> trying to call that method on TestPerson rather than TestPersonController.
>
> I'm sure there's a better way to set this up - any advice would be greatly
> appreciated!

I get a very different result. Here's what I did:

$ rails foo
$ cd foo
$ script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git
$ script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git
$ script/generate rspec
$ mkdir vendor/plugins/custom_attribute_fu
$ mkdir vendor/plugins/custom_attribute_fu/spec
$ touch vendor/plugins/custom_attribute_fu/spec/spec_helper.rb
$ touch vendor/plugins/custom_attribute_fu/spec/active_record_spec.rb

Then I added the text you posted above to active_record_spec.rb and
the following to spec_helper.rb:

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), *%w[.. .. .. .. spec spec_helper])

Then, from the RAILS_ROOT:

$ rake spec:plugins
F

1)
ActionView::MissingTemplate in 'TestPeopleController handling GET
/custom_attribute_definitions should be successful'

This is with rails 2.1 and the latest rspec (from git).

Am I doing something different from what you did?