[rspec-users] How to test modules and custom validators

[David Chelimsky]

On Aug 3, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Piter Fcbk wrote:

> I'm trying to have most of the important stuff tested and in order to do that I run in front of some stuff I'm not quite sure which is the best way to test them.
> At this time I am having question around how to test modules and the custom validators (the typical email format validator for example).
> 
> To test a module the best I saw up to now was finded here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/512466/how-to-implement-an-abstract-class-in-ruby
> In the before he creates a new class and import the module to test, Then, using the class created, he test the module methods.
> Is this the recommended way to go?
> 
> About testing validators I guess something like what was done with the models could also work but again not sure if its the way to go or if its totally wrong.
> 
> Some advices on this matters will be really appreciated,
> 
> Thanks in advance.

I usually like to do something like:

describe MyModule do
  let(:object) { Class.new { include MyModule } }

  it "does something" do
    object.method_from_my_module.should do_something
  end
end

HTH,
David



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