[rspec-users] requests: is it possible to put the fill_in's into a method?

[S Ahmed]

ahh, nice makes sense thanks!

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Andrew Premdas <apremdas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 February 2012 16:36, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I'm testing my signup page, and I want to minimize the duplication of
>> the fill_in code for filling in the form fields and testing how my page
>> reacts when someone forgets to enter input.
>>
>> fill_in "....", with: "abc123"
>>
>> Any tricks of doing this?
>>
>> Say I have 10 fill_in calls, so say I want to test to make sure the form
>> fails if any combination of the last 4 fields are missing.
>>
>> I was thinking of putting the first 6 fill_in calls into a method, and
>> then calling that method:
>>
>> it "should ..." do
>>   enter_first_6
>>   # now enter 3 of the 4 and verify
>> end
>>
>> it "should ..." do
>>   enter_first_6
>>   # now enter a different combination of the last 4 fields
>> end
>>
>> I haven't tested this yet, just brainstorming, any other advise?
>>
>> I wish things worked liked attribute hashes where you could just call
>> .merge and change the default set.
>>
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>
>
> Quite a good way to do this is to create a hash that has all your values
> and then modify the hash for your errors. So you could do something like
>
> def good_attrs()
>   {
>      :foo => 'foo'
>      :bar => 'bar
>      ...
>   }
> end
>
> then have a fill in method that takes the hash
>
> def fill_in(attrs)
>   attrs.each do |k,v|
>     fill_in k, :with => v
>     ...
>
> finally do your errors by
>
> fill_in(good_attrs(:with => {:foo => nil})
>
> or use :except etc.
>
> You can also put your a spec inside a loop
>
> %w(foo bar bax).each do |bad_attr|
>    it "should ... #{bad_attr}..." do
>      fill_in(good_attrs(:except => {:bad_attr})
>
> etc.
>
> All of top of my head so expect syntax errors, but hopefully enough to be
> useful
>
> All best
>
> Andrew
>
> HTH
>
> Andrew
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