[rspec-users] Prepare for newbie-ness

[Martin Streicher]

I find the debugger helpful to step through the underlying Rails code  
when I am perplexed about the (errant) operation of something. The  
underworld is full of wonderful secrets. Plus, I do make mistakes and  
misinterpret and the debugger lets me take a look around. I try to  
avoid making bad smells; the debugger is like Harvey Keitel's  
character in Pulp Fiction.

What about my other questions? Directions on how to write tests when a  
model has_many or belongs_to? When to mock? Pointers to examples would  
be the cheap and easy answer -- is there an open source application  
with rspec tests?

Martin



On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:41 PM, rspec-users-request at rubyforge.org wrote:

>> require 'ruby-debug'
>> debugger
>>
>> at the point in my code where I want to break into the debugger. Then
>> running the specs via most any means (including autotest, but not
>> spec_server) will start up the debugger at that point. Frankly,  
>> though, I'll
>> often just stick in some p statements to show some data. Actually,  
>> I use
>> this little function: