From pafahim at gmail.com  Sat Sep  1 10:43:56 2012
From: pafahim at gmail.com (Fahim Patel)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 16:13:56 +0530
Subject: [rspec-users] Thanks
Message-ID: <CA+_35O2M5uHNOpSngBJ7ytj-G_nKfz2RqTQdYRy-XozuCXWYZw@mail.gmail.com>

Selenium automates web browsers.

Cucumber automates tests.


can u please explain this line??


thanks

can u give answer on this questions

Q1
if i have 2 sceanario and 1 background  .
but i want only 1 scenario should used that backgound  and 2nd
scenario  dont use that background.

and i want to run them same time.
can it is possible ?

Q2
What is the diff between Capybara and Webrat?
Which one is by default configure with cucumber  ?
If both are providing  same functionality than which one i use?

Q3
How to test  view in cucumber ?
 I want to test CSS and body of page(DOM objects) are working
perfectly or not  ?How to Write in Scenario to test View?


Q4
What is this Silenium Framework  ?
Can i use this for Rails application   ?
This framework is better than Cucumber for High level testing ?
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From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Sat Sep  1 23:59:50 2012
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 19:59:50 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] Thanks
In-Reply-To: <CA+_35O2M5uHNOpSngBJ7ytj-G_nKfz2RqTQdYRy-XozuCXWYZw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+_35O2M5uHNOpSngBJ7ytj-G_nKfz2RqTQdYRy-XozuCXWYZw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKw-oWQomNou-RDw5m+icwYNKj=Mx6C+d2ojyJn=HbuEsaYjPw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Fahim Patel <pafahim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Selenium automates web browsers.
>
> Cucumber automates tests.
>
>
> can u please explain this line??

Please read the docs for these tools:

http://cukes.info/
http://seleniumhq.org/

> thanks
>
> can u give answer on this questions

All of the questions below are about Cucumber. Please post these
questions to https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/cukes.

>
> Q1
> if i have 2 sceanario and 1 background  .
> but i want only 1 scenario should used that backgound  and 2nd  scenario
> dont use that background.
>
>
> and i want to run them same time.
> can it is possible ?
>
> Q2
> What is the diff between Capybara and Webrat?
> Which one is by default configure with cucumber  ?
> If both are providing  same functionality than which one i use?
>
>
> Q3
> How to test  view in cucumber ?
>  I want to test CSS and body of page(DOM objects) are working perfectly or
> not  ?How to Write in Scenario to test View?
>
>
> Q4
> What is this Silenium Framework  ?
> Can i use this for Rails application   ?
>
> This framework is better than Cucumber for High level testing ?
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users

From lists at ruby-forum.com  Sun Sep  2 06:20:47 2012
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (David Tishkoff)
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 08:20:47 +0200
Subject: [rspec-users] RSpec Selenium Webdriver Html Report with Screenshots
Message-ID: <2644b3be84d03b2d9b008b96f61ec7b4@ruby-forum.com>

Hello,

I'm using Rake + RSpec + Selenium-WebDriver for the web testing, Is
there a way to create html report with the screenshot generated on
failure? Would really appreciate your help!

-- 
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From s.cambour at gmail.com  Mon Sep  3 12:00:08 2012
From: s.cambour at gmail.com (Javix)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 05:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [rspec-users] RSpec Selenium Webdriver Html Report with
 Screenshots
In-Reply-To: <2644b3be84d03b2d9b008b96f61ec7b4@ruby-forum.com>
References: <2644b3be84d03b2d9b008b96f61ec7b4@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <04d1722d-9453-4ec6-ad25-3721e8900d38@googlegroups.com>

Just a piecec pf code to create a screen shot:

private void takeScreenShot(RuntimeException e, String fileName) {

    File screenShot = ((TakesScreenshot) 
driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

    try {

        FileUtils.copyFile(screenShot, new File(fileName + ".png"));

    } catch (IOException ioe) {

        throw new RuntimeException(ioe.getMessage(), ioe);

    }

    throw e;

}


On Sunday, September 2, 2012 8:22:15 AM UTC+2, David Tishkoff wrote:
>
> Hello, 
>
> I'm using Rake + RSpec + Selenium-WebDriver for the web testing, Is 
> there a way to create html report with the screenshot generated on 
> failure? Would really appreciate your help! 
>
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. 
> _______________________________________________ 
> rspec-users mailing list 
> rspec... at rubyforge.org <javascript:> 
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users 
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From s.cambour at gmail.com  Mon Sep  3 11:58:46 2012
From: s.cambour at gmail.com (Javix)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 04:58:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [rspec-users] RSpec Selenium Webdriver Html Report with
 Screenshots
In-Reply-To: <2644b3be84d03b2d9b008b96f61ec7b4@ruby-forum.com>
References: <2644b3be84d03b2d9b008b96f61ec7b4@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <c5b25add-d699-4f7a-886e-af6b18120c1d@googlegroups.com>

You can generate HTML reports with surefire, just addd the folowing to your 
POM file:

<plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <reportPlugins>                        
                        <plugin>
                            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                            
<artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
                            <version>2.4.3</version>
                        </plugin>            
                    </reportPlugins>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

See more details on its use at 
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/
adn http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-report-plugin/ for 
reporting.

As for screen shots, see takeScreenShot class in Selenium API: 
http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/index.html?overview-summary.html

On Sunday, September 2, 2012 8:22:15 AM UTC+2, David Tishkoff wrote:
>
> Hello, 
>
> I'm using Rake + RSpec + Selenium-WebDriver for the web testing, Is 
> there a way to create html report with the screenshot generated on 
> failure? Would really appreciate your help! 
>
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. 
> _______________________________________________ 
> rspec-users mailing list 
> rspec... at rubyforge.org <javascript:> 
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users 
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From lists at ruby-forum.com  Mon Sep  3 17:59:21 2012
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (David Tishkoff)
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:59:21 +0200
Subject: [rspec-users] RSpec Selenium Webdriver Html Report with
	Screenshots
In-Reply-To: <04d1722d-9453-4ec6-ad25-3721e8900d38@googlegroups.com>
References: <2644b3be84d03b2d9b008b96f61ec7b4@ruby-forum.com>
	<04d1722d-9453-4ec6-ad25-3721e8900d38@googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <0e9acd56e0291a9c6f3477c6a8d33aac@ruby-forum.com>

Serguei Cambour wrote in post #1074435:
> Just a piecec pf code to create a screen shot:
>
> private void takeScreenShot(RuntimeException e, String fileName) {
>
>     File screenShot = ((TakesScreenshot)
> driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
>
>     try {
>
>         FileUtils.copyFile(screenShot, new File(fileName + ".png"));
>
>     } catch (IOException ioe) {
>
>         throw new RuntimeException(ioe.getMessage(), ioe);
>
>     }
>
>     throw e;
>
> }

Thank you for the help, sorry I forgot to mention that I'm using ruby 
and I need screenshots to be included into RSpec html reports.

-- 
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From pafahim at gmail.com  Tue Sep  4 04:57:26 2012
From: pafahim at gmail.com (Fahim Patel)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:27:26 +0530
Subject: [rspec-users] your cuke forum is not opening
Message-ID: <CA+_35O3C9R9ZSuVy=8gbDEXgvcmexJVOoN6Y9fqJOYkO6wvjFQ@mail.gmail.com>

 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/cukes.



this link is not opening...
can u give me accurate link...


thanks
Fahim babar patel
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From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Tue Sep  4 10:38:14 2012
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 06:38:14 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] your cuke forum is not opening
In-Reply-To: <CA+_35O3C9R9ZSuVy=8gbDEXgvcmexJVOoN6Y9fqJOYkO6wvjFQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+_35O3C9R9ZSuVy=8gbDEXgvcmexJVOoN6Y9fqJOYkO6wvjFQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKw-oWTnL1Ot1CZxnbFj-2EAV9k_qx2oW_Rst3hfNMM5UGrvTg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Fahim Patel <pafahim at gmail.com> wrote:
>  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/cukes.
>
> this link is not opening...
> can u give me accurate link...

Try http://groups.google.com/group/cukes

From lists at ruby-forum.com  Fri Sep  7 19:14:10 2012
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (Anand K V R.)
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:14:10 +0200
Subject: [rspec-users] Newbie testing questions
In-Reply-To: <116e33fa2c1a6388da420b253881b536@ruby-forum.com>
References: <116e33fa2c1a6388da420b253881b536@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <49066c38bbe9b562569405e3a998c4a0@ruby-forum.com>

Hi Friends.

I'm an absolute Tester (little experience on development upto college 
level) and had been asked to Test an application developed in Rails. As 
our client selected Rspec, I have no other go.

Can anyone help me with a basic program in Rspec how to open GMAIL, 
enter username / password , then login.

Thanks in advance ,

Aishwarya

-- 
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From lists at ruby-forum.com  Sun Sep  9 06:00:25 2012
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (jeevan reddy)
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:00:25 +0200
Subject: [rspec-users] Stub a controller method containing arguments
Message-ID: <0bb1d458b13c9d31f0c930d2ab4f7894@ruby-forum.com>

controller code:

class BooksController < ApplicationController
  def index
   param1, param2 = "123", "456"
    @test = method_1(param1, param2)
  end

  private
  def method_1(param1, param2)
    return "test"
  end
end

controller tests

describe "GET index" do
  it "get books" do
    param1, param2 = "12334", "456233"
    controller.stub!(:method_1).with(param1,param2).and_return("test")
    get :index
    assert_response :success
    assigns(:test).should eq("test")
  end
end

How to stub a controller private method which will take any arguments

-- 
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From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Sun Sep  9 11:31:56 2012
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 06:31:56 -0500
Subject: [rspec-users] Stub a controller method containing arguments
In-Reply-To: <0bb1d458b13c9d31f0c930d2ab4f7894@ruby-forum.com>
References: <0bb1d458b13c9d31f0c930d2ab4f7894@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <CAKw-oWTN4bUhDX1Y0drGATwWqusaFjf8m0davAEi4fU4ZOafxg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:00 AM, jeevan reddy <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> controller code:
>
> class BooksController < ApplicationController
>   def index
>    param1, param2 = "123", "456"
>     @test = method_1(param1, param2)
>   end
>
>   private
>   def method_1(param1, param2)
>     return "test"
>   end
> end
>
> controller tests
>
> describe "GET index" do
>   it "get books" do
>     param1, param2 = "12334", "456233"
>     controller.stub!(:method_1).with(param1,param2).and_return("test")
>     get :index
>     assert_response :success
>     assigns(:test).should eq("test")
>   end
> end
>
> How to stub a controller private method which will take any arguments

In your example above, the values of param1 and param2 are different
in the rspec example and the controller, so I'm guessing you're
getting a failure. If you're constraining a stub with specific args,
they have to match.

Curious - why do you care about the args in your real spec?

From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Sun Sep  9 11:51:01 2012
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 06:51:01 -0500
Subject: [rspec-users] Newbie testing questions
In-Reply-To: <49066c38bbe9b562569405e3a998c4a0@ruby-forum.com>
References: <116e33fa2c1a6388da420b253881b536@ruby-forum.com>
	<49066c38bbe9b562569405e3a998c4a0@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <CAKw-oWQ-Hk-SUkaPrX1sduYpq0-0yZg-zHnJt9ra7KyKCT-bTg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Anand K V R. <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi Friends.
>
> I'm an absolute Tester (little experience on development upto college
> level) and had been asked to Test an application developed in Rails. As
> our client selected Rspec, I have no other go.
>
> Can anyone help me with a basic program in Rspec how to open GMAIL,
> enter username / password , then login.
>
> Thanks in advance ,
>
> Aishwarya

Take a look at https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara. Everything you
need is referenced in the README on that page.

From lists at ruby-forum.com  Mon Sep 10 21:51:51 2012
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (Fearless Fool)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:51:51 +0200
Subject: [rspec-users] Drawing the line between controller and integration
	tests
Message-ID: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>

I'm trying to understand what belongs -- and what doesn't belong -- in
controller tests and in integration tests.

As a common example, assume I have a list of named widgets.  Somewhere
in my code, I want to verify that

    widget = FactoryGirl.create(:widget)
    get :index

generates a page that has the string #{widget.name} somewhere therein.
But is that a controller test or an integration test?

As another example, assume a user must be logged on in order to access
the widgets.  I can test authentication and authorization separately,
but is it considered necessary to write an integration test for this?
Or is this something you'd verify at the controller level?

Etc.  I'm not looking for specific answers to the above as much as
guiding principles, or at least pointers to same.  Thanks!

-- 
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From lists at ruby-forum.com  Mon Sep 10 22:28:25 2012
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (Fearless Fool)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:28:25 +0200
Subject: [rspec-users] Drawing the line between controller and
	integration tests
In-Reply-To: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>
References: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <8c8e19b15539d60f703e139e90e46a7d@ruby-forum.com>

One addendum: One thing I'd specifically like to know is where/how do 
you test the *contents* of generated responses?  That seems beyond the 
purview of a controller test, but it doesn't require multiple 
transactions or cross-controller interactions that would require an 
integration test.

-- 
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From ossareh at twitch.tv  Mon Sep 10 23:52:20 2012
From: ossareh at twitch.tv (Mike Ossareh)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:52:20 -0700
Subject: [rspec-users] Drawing the line between controller and
	integration tests
In-Reply-To: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>
References: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <CAMfoQ-rfKSXn+ShgbRmOT53FKT_XWaRnYhav0KGZ-hwxLq-=LA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Fearless Fool <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to understand what belongs -- and what doesn't belong -- in
> controller tests and in integration tests.
>
> As a common example, assume I have a list of named widgets.  Somewhere
> in my code, I want to verify that
>
>     widget = FactoryGirl.create(:widget)
>     get :index
>
> generates a page that has the string #{widget.name} somewhere therein.
> But is that a controller test or an integration test?
>

Having spent a majority of my time writing test cases I've found there are
two main types, unit tests and integration tests. An integration test is
called such because it crosses a logical boundary (either in code or over a
socket, talking to a database, etc). Unit tests are usually self contained.

In your case you're talking about a "controller" test, if I try to fit that
into my mental model I can see it as either an integration test or a unit
test - and you just need to decide which you want to use. Usually I've
found integration tests to have the best bang for buck in terms of
stability and unit tests to be very very helpful in fixing bugs and
alleviating poor performance in chunks of code.

Assuming you had the following flow:

   1. User posts a form
   2. Controller creates a "widget"
   3. Controller redirects user to a list with "widget.name" in it.

You would be best served writing an integration test, imho. The fact it is
testing the controller and the model is neither here nor there. Let us
assume there are some functions that exist on Widget that are not directly
called by an HTTP action - then you'd want a unit test. That is the
following would be integration tests.

Widget
  #new
  #update_attributes

Where as the following may be unit tests:

Widget
  #friendly_name
  #synchronize_to_external_service




> As another example, assume a user must be logged on in order to access
> the widgets.  I can test authentication and authorization separately,
> but is it considered necessary to write an integration test for this?
> Or is this something you'd verify at the controller level?
>
> Etc.  I'm not looking for specific answers to the above as much as
> guiding principles, or at least pointers to same.  Thanks!
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
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From me at jbrains.ca  Tue Sep 11 14:25:37 2012
From: me at jbrains.ca (J. B. Rainsberger)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:25:37 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] Drawing the line between controller and
	integration tests
In-Reply-To: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>
References: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <CAA85kdU-hEhCudcG43_mY21nb_d-HvEZxMrWp2DYLWJ4GbJKFw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Fearless Fool <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to understand what belongs -- and what doesn't belong -- in
> controller tests and in integration tests.
>
> As a common example, assume I have a list of named widgets.  Somewhere
> in my code, I want to verify that
>
>     widget = FactoryGirl.create(:widget)
>     get :index
>
> generates a page that has the string #{widget.name} somewhere therein.
> But is that a controller test or an integration test?
>

What's the controller's responsibility here? I see two things:

* choose the right view
* assign the right values to the right variables

Actually rendering the right page with the right text on it sounds like a
view responsibility.

Therefore, how to check that the controller chooses the right view and
assigns the variables correctly?

As another example, assume a user must be logged on in order to access
> the widgets.  I can test authentication and authorization separately,
> but is it considered necessary to write an integration test for this?
> Or is this something you'd verify at the controller level?
>

I find this slightly trickier. Again, what's the controller's
responsibility?

* ask to authenticate the user for certain routes
* ask to authorize the user for certain routes

It seems clear which tests to write for the controller, but I don't want to
have to check authentication and authorization for every example I run on a
specific route.

Therefore, check authentication for each route in its own test. Also, check
authorization for each route in its own test. Bad news: this will result in
a lot of duplication in tests; good news: I find it easy to remove this
duplication into a single set of authentication and authorization checks.
Imagine something like this:

describe "authenticate the user" do
  ROUTES_REQUIRING_AUTHENTICATION = [?]

  ROUTES_REQUIRING_AUTHENTICATION.each do | route |
    example "when requesting the resource at route #{route}" do
      authentication_service.should_receive(?)
      get route
    end
  end
end

The authorization policy checks will be a bit more complicated, but at
least you can gather them all in the same place for easy reference.

Etc.  I'm not looking for specific answers to the above as much as
> guiding principles, or at least pointers to same.  Thanks!
>

My guiding principles haven't changed in almost 15 years:
http://link.jbrains.ca/simple-design
-- 
J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger :: http://www.jbrains.ca ::
http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com
Author, JUnit Recipes
Free Your Mind to Do Great Work :: http://www.freeyourmind-dogreatwork.com
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From cnk at ugcs.caltech.edu  Tue Sep 11 20:25:15 2012
From: cnk at ugcs.caltech.edu (Cynthia Kiser)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:25:15 -0700
Subject: [rspec-users] Drawing the line between controller and
 integration tests
In-Reply-To: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>
References: <153ba8ff3332730d95754dc51849389c@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <20120911202515.GD10926@ugcs.caltech.edu>

Quoting Fearless Fool <lists at ruby-forum.com>:
> I'm trying to understand what belongs -- and what doesn't belong -- in
> controller tests and in integration tests.
> 
> As a common example, assume I have a list of named widgets.  Somewhere
> in my code, I want to verify that
> 
>     widget = FactoryGirl.create(:widget)
>     get :index
> 
> generates a page that has the string #{widget.name} somewhere therein.
> But is that a controller test or an integration test?

First, one of the other responses in this thread split the world into
unit tests vs integration tests. For the most part, the tests
generated by the Rails framework are all set up to be unit tests
(provided you use mocks and stubs instead of the supporting objects
that you are not directly testing in a particular file). 

In your example above, since you created the object instead of using a
stub or mock, this is an integration test, not a straight unit test
for the controller. This test could fail for reasons having nothing to
do with the controller (e.g. you added a required field ot the widget
model and forgot to update your factory) - that makes it an
integration test. To make that into a controller unit test, you need
to mock the widget and just test that the controller makes available
an instance variable containing 'widget'. Then you need a view spec
that provides a mock for the @widget variable and then makes sure that
the view displays the widget name.

Or, as one of the other people pointed out, make an integration test
that does all of what you outlined above. 

> As another example, assume a user must be logged on in order to access
> the widgets.  I can test authentication and authorization separately,
> but is it considered necessary to write an integration test for this?
> Or is this something you'd verify at the controller level?

I usually take the road mentioned by one of the other respondents and
create a separate file containing my authorization tests. Because in
that file I am only focusing on the return status from the request, I
am more or less making unit tests for my authorization configuration.

> One addendum: One thing I'd specifically like to know is where/how
> do you test the *contents* of generated responses?  That seems
> beyond the purview of a controller test, but it doesn't require
> multiple transactions or cross-controller interactions that would
> require an integration test.

In a Rails context, you test the contents of the generated responses
in view tests.  

-- 
Cynthia N. Kiser
cnk at ugcs.caltech.edu

From sahmed1020 at gmail.com  Fri Sep 14 16:20:56 2012
From: sahmed1020 at gmail.com (S Ahmed)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:20:56 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] how to stop rspec from creating helper/view specs?
Message-ID: <CAG2rwuMLu4XsQNxQ=7bxJr6qc7m=yg1HnV63c1rey6az24VsmA@mail.gmail.com>

I tried adding this to my application.rb:

config.generators do |g|
  g.view_specs false
  g.helper_specs false
end


But it didn't stop the generator from creating view/helper specs.

What am I doing wrong?

Also also tried doing this the configuration section:

config.view_specs = false
config.helper_specs = false


But it didn't do anything.
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From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Fri Sep 14 16:30:30 2012
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:30:30 -0500
Subject: [rspec-users] how to stop rspec from creating helper/view specs?
In-Reply-To: <CAG2rwuMLu4XsQNxQ=7bxJr6qc7m=yg1HnV63c1rey6az24VsmA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAG2rwuMLu4XsQNxQ=7bxJr6qc7m=yg1HnV63c1rey6az24VsmA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKw-oWQw7cGw49ShXsGNnVJf0G7W5av-qtMp0_osv_Y31Of0+w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried adding this to my application.rb:
>
> config.generators do |g|
>   g.view_specs false
>   g.helper_specs false
> end

See "Customizing your workflow" on http://guides.rubyonrails.org/generators.html

According to that, you need to something like this, but I've never
tried it, so if it doesn't work please consult the rails mailing list
(although, do let us know whether it does).

config.generators do |g|
  g.test_framework :rspec, :view_specs => false, :helper_specs => false
end

HTH,
David

>
>
> But it didn't stop the generator from creating view/helper specs.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Also also tried doing this the configuration section:
>
> config.view_specs = false
> config.helper_specs = false
>
>
> But it didn't do anything.
>
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users

From lists at ruby-forum.com  Fri Sep 14 16:31:19 2012
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (ankush m.)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:31:19 +0200
Subject: [rspec-users] Rspec for thor script
Message-ID: <4e323165dbe5193add933a98e9597883@ruby-forum.com>

Hello all,
          I recently developed a CLI extending thor API.
While i was trying to write specs for thor's tasks, I couldn't find any
way to write the same for tasks with mandatory options or with  options.
So can anyone please guide me for the same?

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Fri Sep 14 16:47:35 2012
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:47:35 -0500
Subject: [rspec-users] Rspec for thor script
In-Reply-To: <4e323165dbe5193add933a98e9597883@ruby-forum.com>
References: <4e323165dbe5193add933a98e9597883@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <CAKw-oWT5HkMspG+cZ6ujEXvaRU3RPCbVgM-4n6Y9M79VrXbksg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:31 AM, ankush m. <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>           I recently developed a CLI extending thor API.
> While i was trying to write specs for thor's tasks, I couldn't find any
> way to write the same for tasks with mandatory options or with  options.
> So can anyone please guide me for the same?

I haven't written any myself, but I'd recommend taking a look at
thor's own specs for guidance:
https://github.com/wycats/thor/tree/master/spec

HTH,
David

From sahmed1020 at gmail.com  Sun Sep 23 23:55:43 2012
From: sahmed1020 at gmail.com (S Ahmed)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:55:43 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] How can I create a active-record model w/o depending
	on the database?
Message-ID: <CAG2rwuPgJzhbpV304K_qjG_+AcRymQumot5X4gJqJkV4m3h+TQ@mail.gmail.com>

I have a class that takes a class that inherits from activerecord as a
parameter, e.g.:

class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
end

class MyClass
  attr_accessor :model
  def initialize(model)
    @model = model
  end
end


The class MyClass will then iterate over the Models attributes etc.

Also I will need to know each attributes data type in mysql like: integer,
boolean, etc.

So my unit tests shouldnt' rely on the database, but I'm a little confused
on how I can create stub/mock that will have attributes on it similiar to
how it would be if I was creating a model and it reading the mysql columns
as attributes.

Thoughts on how I can do this w/o actually having to depend on a database
for my spec tests?
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From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Mon Sep 24 00:31:56 2012
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:31:56 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] How can I create a active-record model w/o
 depending on the database?
In-Reply-To: <CAG2rwuPgJzhbpV304K_qjG_+AcRymQumot5X4gJqJkV4m3h+TQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAG2rwuPgJzhbpV304K_qjG_+AcRymQumot5X4gJqJkV4m3h+TQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKw-oWRpgugb7UFcpngQMdmtu-yNJ18BfybK4TDd6GUE_9=_Yg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:55 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a class that takes a class that inherits from activerecord as a
> parameter, e.g.:
>
> class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
> end
>
> class MyClass
>   attr_accessor :model
>   def initialize(model)
>     @model = model
>   end
> end
>
>
> The class MyClass will then iterate over the Models attributes etc.
>
> Also I will need to know each attributes data type in mysql like: integer,
> boolean, etc.
>
> So my unit tests shouldnt' rely on the database, but I'm a little confused
> on how I can create stub/mock that will have attributes on it similiar to
> how it would be if I was creating a model and it reading the mysql columns
> as attributes.
>
> Thoughts on how I can do this w/o actually having to depend on a database
> for my spec tests?

There is a guideline that says "Don't mock types you don't own," which
I've just learned was coined by my colleague at DRW, Joe Walnes [1].

In this case, this guideline suggests that you stub/mock MyClass in
tests for the objects that interact with it, thereby isolating _them_
from the database, but that the tests for MyClass itself are allowed
to interact w/ the database through the AR model. This limits your
dependency on AR to MyClass and its tests, so changes to ActiveRecord
and/or decisions to move to a different database abstraction don't fan
out very far.

Make sense?

Make sense?

From sahmed1020 at gmail.com  Mon Sep 24 00:56:12 2012
From: sahmed1020 at gmail.com (S Ahmed)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:56:12 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] How can I create a active-record model w/o
 depending on the database?
In-Reply-To: <CAKw-oWRpgugb7UFcpngQMdmtu-yNJ18BfybK4TDd6GUE_9=_Yg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAG2rwuPgJzhbpV304K_qjG_+AcRymQumot5X4gJqJkV4m3h+TQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAKw-oWRpgugb7UFcpngQMdmtu-yNJ18BfybK4TDd6GUE_9=_Yg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAG2rwuOg5WM4PCUpLgSaa15dUxKYJp22it5OVYXX2dEAdFm08w@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, I think I get it.

The actual class can interact since it is kinda necessary and vital to
testing int anyhow, but when other classes are depending on MyClass, you
can stub/mock since they are outside the scope or domain of the MyClass, so
they shouldn't have to be depending on the dependancies of Myclass.

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:31 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:55 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a class that takes a class that inherits from activerecord as a
> > parameter, e.g.:
> >
> > class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
> > end
> >
> > class MyClass
> >   attr_accessor :model
> >   def initialize(model)
> >     @model = model
> >   end
> > end
> >
> >
> > The class MyClass will then iterate over the Models attributes etc.
> >
> > Also I will need to know each attributes data type in mysql like:
> integer,
> > boolean, etc.
> >
> > So my unit tests shouldnt' rely on the database, but I'm a little
> confused
> > on how I can create stub/mock that will have attributes on it similiar to
> > how it would be if I was creating a model and it reading the mysql
> columns
> > as attributes.
> >
> > Thoughts on how I can do this w/o actually having to depend on a database
> > for my spec tests?
>
> There is a guideline that says "Don't mock types you don't own," which
> I've just learned was coined by my colleague at DRW, Joe Walnes [1].
>
> In this case, this guideline suggests that you stub/mock MyClass in
> tests for the objects that interact with it, thereby isolating _them_
> from the database, but that the tests for MyClass itself are allowed
> to interact w/ the database through the AR model. This limits your
> dependency on AR to MyClass and its tests, so changes to ActiveRecord
> and/or decisions to move to a different database abstraction don't fan
> out very far.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Make sense?
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
>
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From dchelimsky at gmail.com  Mon Sep 24 01:01:54 2012
From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:01:54 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] How can I create a active-record model w/o
 depending on the database?
In-Reply-To: <CAG2rwuOg5WM4PCUpLgSaa15dUxKYJp22it5OVYXX2dEAdFm08w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAG2rwuPgJzhbpV304K_qjG_+AcRymQumot5X4gJqJkV4m3h+TQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAKw-oWRpgugb7UFcpngQMdmtu-yNJ18BfybK4TDd6GUE_9=_Yg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAG2rwuOg5WM4PCUpLgSaa15dUxKYJp22it5OVYXX2dEAdFm08w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKw-oWRogA-L=bvMJyNNJ8ZCb+Y1qfrdx2-w2zzaLeR5aSskVg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:56 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I think I get it.
>
> The actual class can interact since it is kinda necessary and vital to
> testing int anyhow, but when other classes are depending on MyClass, you can
> stub/mock since they are outside the scope or domain of the MyClass, so they
> shouldn't have to be depending on the dependancies of Myclass.

That's basically it.

>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:31 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:55 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have a class that takes a class that inherits from activerecord as a
>> > parameter, e.g.:
>> >
>> > class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
>> > end
>> >
>> > class MyClass
>> >   attr_accessor :model
>> >   def initialize(model)
>> >     @model = model
>> >   end
>> > end
>> >
>> >
>> > The class MyClass will then iterate over the Models attributes etc.
>> >
>> > Also I will need to know each attributes data type in mysql like:
>> > integer,
>> > boolean, etc.
>> >
>> > So my unit tests shouldnt' rely on the database, but I'm a little
>> > confused
>> > on how I can create stub/mock that will have attributes on it similiar
>> > to
>> > how it would be if I was creating a model and it reading the mysql
>> > columns
>> > as attributes.
>> >
>> > Thoughts on how I can do this w/o actually having to depend on a
>> > database
>> > for my spec tests?
>>
>> There is a guideline that says "Don't mock types you don't own," which
>> I've just learned was coined by my colleague at DRW, Joe Walnes [1].
>>
>> In this case, this guideline suggests that you stub/mock MyClass in
>> tests for the objects that interact with it, thereby isolating _them_
>> from the database, but that the tests for MyClass itself are allowed
>> to interact w/ the database through the AR model. This limits your
>> dependency on AR to MyClass and its tests, so changes to ActiveRecord
>> and/or decisions to move to a different database abstraction don't fan
>> out very far.
>>
>> Make sense?
>>
>> Make sense?
>> _______________________________________________
>> rspec-users mailing list
>> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users

From kannan.deepak at gmail.com  Wed Sep 26 15:16:06 2012
From: kannan.deepak at gmail.com (deepak kannan)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:46:06 +0530
Subject: [rspec-users] i cannot seem to use at_least
Message-ID: <CAF80r+sxTA9NzwryG+pZR_7NpjZPM6G4xovRQqBdLb+YOG6bOA@mail.gmail.com>

hi,

Problem is that i want to test chained method calls. Where the method chain
is optional
But if the method chain is called then certain assertions apply on the
method chain itself

The object may or may not call a method.
But if it does call the method then it has to call another method on it
(ie. method chain) with certain arguments
I wrote a comment explaining my actual usecase at
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/133#issuecomment-8886264

kind-of obfuscated and simplified code example is at
https://gist.github.com/3788035

code snippet:
mock = mock('Monitor')
mock.should_receive(:ping).with('DS1').and_return(stub.as_null_object)
devops.should_receive(:monitor).and_return(proxy)

i read these issues
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/131
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/133

-- 
best,
deepak
w: https://gist.github.com/deepak
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From benjamin.lovell at gmail.com  Wed Sep 26 15:35:02 2012
From: benjamin.lovell at gmail.com (Ben Lovell)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:35:02 +0100
Subject: [rspec-users] i cannot seem to use at_least
In-Reply-To: <CAF80r+sxTA9NzwryG+pZR_7NpjZPM6G4xovRQqBdLb+YOG6bOA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAF80r+sxTA9NzwryG+pZR_7NpjZPM6G4xovRQqBdLb+YOG6bOA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAFYMY5LdyonJEVfiZaT+sKuJ+MD37wx5tuYbiKdS-oXY22743w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

On 26 September 2012 16:16, deepak kannan <kannan.deepak at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> Problem is that i want to test chained method calls. Where the method
> chain is optional
> But if the method chain is called then certain assertions apply on the
> method chain itself
>
> The object may or may not call a method.
> But if it does call the method then it has to call another method on it
> (ie. method chain) with certain arguments
> I wrote a comment explaining my actual usecase at
> https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/133#issuecomment-8886264
>
> kind-of obfuscated and simplified code example is at
> https://gist.github.com/3788035
>
> code snippet:
> mock = mock('Monitor')
> mock.should_receive(:ping).with('DS1').and_return(stub.as_null_object)
> devops.should_receive(:monitor).and_return(proxy)
>
> i read these issues
> https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/131
> https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/133
>
> --
> best,
> deepak
> w: https://gist.github.com/deepak
>

Did you read the discussion from the issue?

https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/133

It makes a strong case as to why at_least(0) makes no sense.

Cheers,
Ben
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From patrick at collinatorstudios.com  Wed Sep 26 16:16:01 2012
From: patrick at collinatorstudios.com (Patrick J. Collins)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:16:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [rspec-users] what would be the best way to stub out an XHR
	request's response?
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1209260906170.9691@vincent.westell.com>

If I have a javascript ajax request happening that fetches json data
from a remote service, and I want to be running an integration test with
rspec-- what would be the best way to stub out that service?

The ideas that I've come up is:

manually add a route + open up application controller from within my
spec and dynamically create an action that returns mock json...  Then
make my .js a .js.erb file, and do something like:

$.ajax({ url: <%= Rails.env.test? ? 
"/my_added_route_that_hits_the_controller_method_that_returns_json" :
"http://somewebservice.com/feed" %> });

Can anyone come up with any better solutions?

Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com


From webervin at gmail.com  Wed Sep 26 17:26:16 2012
From: webervin at gmail.com (Ervin Weber)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:26:16 +0300
Subject: [rspec-users] what would be the best way to stub out an XHR
 request's response?
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1209260906170.9691@vincent.westell.com>
References: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1209260906170.9691@vincent.westell.com>
Message-ID: <CAFC4ZFgBKnLarSswpXwsLUUP4y2iMa_3pBk5K6G-5EP2Gq4PTg@mail.gmail.com>

You could create some function (say window.GiveMeUrlForAjax) that
returns uri for ajax request, your test could then easily overwrite
that function before triggering event to perform ajax. Also you might
consider creating a function that returns data (in production it would
take url from "GiveMeUrlForAjax" and do real ajax)" so you could
"stub" it in unit tests also.
In my opinion it is good to avoid all "if test?"  statements in
production code (you always can refactor them all into single config
file).

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Patrick J. Collins
<patrick at collinatorstudios.com> wrote:
> If I have a javascript ajax request happening that fetches json data
> from a remote service, and I want to be running an integration test with
> rspec-- what would be the best way to stub out that service?
>
> The ideas that I've come up is:
>
> manually add a route + open up application controller from within my
> spec and dynamically create an action that returns mock json...  Then
> make my .js a .js.erb file, and do something like:
>
> $.ajax({ url: <%= Rails.env.test? ?
> "/my_added_route_that_hits_the_controller_method_that_returns_json" :
> "http://somewebservice.com/feed" %> });
>
> Can anyone come up with any better solutions?
>
> Patrick J. Collins
> http://collinatorstudios.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users

From adam.sroka at gmail.com  Wed Sep 26 17:36:05 2012
From: adam.sroka at gmail.com (Adam Sroka)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:36:05 -0700
Subject: [rspec-users] what would be the best way to stub out an XHR
 request's response?
In-Reply-To: <CAFC4ZFgBKnLarSswpXwsLUUP4y2iMa_3pBk5K6G-5EP2Gq4PTg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1209260906170.9691@vincent.westell.com>
	<CAFC4ZFgBKnLarSswpXwsLUUP4y2iMa_3pBk5K6G-5EP2Gq4PTg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CALaPUVf+-Vhq4sWobVwusrEe2mKofqA7L+DgSrzkRb=yZq_1sg@mail.gmail.com>

I would just wrap the method that makes the ajax call and spec it from
Jasmine. Then you can just stub the wrapper to return the data you
want and expect the right thing to happen in the callback method (or
however the data gets stored/displayed.)

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Ervin Weber <webervin at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could create some function (say window.GiveMeUrlForAjax) that
> returns uri for ajax request, your test could then easily overwrite
> that function before triggering event to perform ajax. Also you might
> consider creating a function that returns data (in production it would
> take url from "GiveMeUrlForAjax" and do real ajax)" so you could
> "stub" it in unit tests also.
> In my opinion it is good to avoid all "if test?"  statements in
> production code (you always can refactor them all into single config
> file).
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Patrick J. Collins
> <patrick at collinatorstudios.com> wrote:
>> If I have a javascript ajax request happening that fetches json data
>> from a remote service, and I want to be running an integration test with
>> rspec-- what would be the best way to stub out that service?
>>
>> The ideas that I've come up is:
>>
>> manually add a route + open up application controller from within my
>> spec and dynamically create an action that returns mock json...  Then
>> make my .js a .js.erb file, and do something like:
>>
>> $.ajax({ url: <%= Rails.env.test? ?
>> "/my_added_route_that_hits_the_controller_method_that_returns_json" :
>> "http://somewebservice.com/feed" %> });
>>
>> Can anyone come up with any better solutions?
>>
>> Patrick J. Collins
>> http://collinatorstudios.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> rspec-users mailing list
>> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users

From patrick at collinatorstudios.com  Wed Sep 26 18:26:19 2012
From: patrick at collinatorstudios.com (Patrick J. Collins)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:26:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [rspec-users] what would be the best way to stub out an XHR
 request's response?
In-Reply-To: <CALaPUVf+-Vhq4sWobVwusrEe2mKofqA7L+DgSrzkRb=yZq_1sg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1209260906170.9691@vincent.westell.com>
	<CAFC4ZFgBKnLarSswpXwsLUUP4y2iMa_3pBk5K6G-5EP2Gq4PTg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CALaPUVf+-Vhq4sWobVwusrEe2mKofqA7L+DgSrzkRb=yZq_1sg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1209261122000.396@caribbean.local>

> I would just wrap the method that makes the ajax call and spec it from
> Jasmine. Then you can just stub the wrapper to return the data you
> want and expect the right thing to happen in the callback method (or
> however the data gets stored/displayed.)

Sorry, I am not sure if I am understanding you correctly...  Are you
saying, in the test environment, load jasmine via <script> tags, and use
it to stub out the method that call that does the ajax call?


Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com

From adam.sroka at gmail.com  Wed Sep 26 18:34:05 2012
From: adam.sroka at gmail.com (Adam Sroka)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:34:05 -0700
Subject: [rspec-users] what would be the best way to stub out an XHR
 request's response?
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Patrick J. Collins
<patrick at collinatorstudios.com> wrote:
>> I would just wrap the method that makes the ajax call and spec it from
>> Jasmine. Then you can just stub the wrapper to return the data you
>> want and expect the right thing to happen in the callback method (or
>> however the data gets stored/displayed.)
>
> Sorry, I am not sure if I am understanding you correctly...  Are you
> saying, in the test environment, load jasmine via <script> tags, and use
> it to stub out the method that call that does the ajax call?
>

That could work. What I would actually do is call jamine-node from a
rake task, because I'm hoping I don't really need the full stack to
spec this behavior. Using rspec to test that a callback happens in a
page sounds like it would be slower than I'd like.

From sahmed1020 at gmail.com  Thu Sep 27 02:25:58 2012
From: sahmed1020 at gmail.com (S Ahmed)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:25:58 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] load global variable so I can access in spec files
Message-ID: <CAG2rwuMdy2KEOBR6J_peOiQ4Bt0UaV=gFMfqztLi5X7mkV71Ow@mail.gmail.com>

In my spec_helper, I want to load yaml file to a variable, and then be able
to use that in my tests.

spec_helper.rb:


RSpec.configure do |config|

end


config = YAML::Load(......)




some_spec.rb

describe 'blah' do

  it "should be...." do
    MyClass.new( config['test'] )
  end

end


How can I do this?
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From alindeman at gmail.com  Thu Sep 27 03:17:26 2012
From: alindeman at gmail.com (Andy Lindeman)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:17:26 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] load global variable so I can access in spec files
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I do this?

If it's truly something that just needs to be loaded once and then is
used without mutation in any number of tests, you might just set it to
a constant in spec_helper.rb:

CONFIG = YAML.load("...")

MyClass.new(CONFIG)

-- 
Andy Lindeman
http://www.andylindeman.com/

From webervin at gmail.com  Thu Sep 27 08:16:17 2012
From: webervin at gmail.com (Ervin Weber)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:16:17 +0300
Subject: [rspec-users] what would be the best way to stub out an XHR
 request's response?
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Adam Sroka <adam.sroka at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Patrick J. Collins
> <patrick at collinatorstudios.com> wrote:
>>> I would just wrap the method that makes the ajax call and spec it from
>>> Jasmine. Then you can just stub the wrapper to return the data you
>>> want and expect the right thing to happen in the callback method (or
>>> however the data gets stored/displayed.)
>>
>> Sorry, I am not sure if I am understanding you correctly...  Are you
>> saying, in the test environment, load jasmine via <script> tags, and use
>> it to stub out the method that call that does the ajax call?
>>
>
> That could work. What I would actually do is call jamine-node from a
> rake task, because I'm hoping I don't really need the full stack to
> spec this behavior. Using rspec to test that a callback happens in a
> page sounds like it would be slower than I'd like.
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users


Actually I assumed rspec integration tests, say using selenium or something.
In such case you could use something similar to the way we stub confirm method:
page.evaluate_script('window.confirm = function() { return true; }')
to simply override some functions before ajax is sent out.

From kannan.deepak at gmail.com  Thu Sep 27 06:29:29 2012
From: kannan.deepak at gmail.com (deepak)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:29:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [rspec-users] i cannot seem to use at_least
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@ben i did read the discussion for issue#133. 
But i did not get the argument that at_least(0) should be a stub. @
myronmarston <https://github.com/myronmarston> comment at the end, cleared 
that up for me

After reading it again, i came up with https://gist.github.com/3792506
am a rspec noob so please forgive the bad example
If it is not too much of a problem, can someone post some code on how to 
solve the issue

On Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:07:13 UTC+5:30, Ben Lovell wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On 26 September 2012 16:16, deepak kannan <kannan... at gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> Problem is that i want to test chained method calls. Where the method 
>> chain is optional
>> But if the method chain is called then certain assertions apply on the 
>> method chain itself
>>
>> The object may or may not call a method. 
>> But if it does call the method then it has to call another method on it 
>> (ie. method chain) with certain arguments
>> I wrote a comment explaining my actual usecase at 
>> https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/133#issuecomment-8886264
>>
>> kind-of obfuscated and simplified code example is at 
>> https://gist.github.com/3788035
>>
>> code snippet:
>> mock = mock('Monitor')
>> mock.should_receive(:ping).with('DS1').and_return(stub.as_null_object)
>> devops.should_receive(:monitor).and_return(proxy)
>>
>> i read these issues
>> https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/131
>> https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/133
>>
>> -- 
>> best,
>> deepak
>> w: https://gist.github.com/deepak 
>>
>
> Did you read the discussion from the issue? 
>
> https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/133
>
> It makes a strong case as to why at_least(0) makes no sense.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>

--
best,
deepak
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From sahmed1020 at gmail.com  Fri Sep 28 02:16:13 2012
From: sahmed1020 at gmail.com (S Ahmed)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:16:13 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] load global variable so I can access in spec files
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I do have it in my spec_helper, does it have to be inside the RSpec.config
block?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Andy Lindeman <alindeman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How can I do this?
>
> If it's truly something that just needs to be loaded once and then is
> used without mutation in any number of tests, you might just set it to
> a constant in spec_helper.rb:
>
> CONFIG = YAML.load("...")
>
> MyClass.new(CONFIG)
>
> --
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> http://www.andylindeman.com/
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From alindeman at gmail.com  Fri Sep 28 02:39:07 2012
From: alindeman at gmail.com (Andy Lindeman)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:39:07 -0400
Subject: [rspec-users] load global variable so I can access in spec files
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Not if it's a constant. You'll need to make sure it starts with a capital
letter for it to be interpreted as such by Ruby; otherwise it's just a
local variable.

On Thursday, September 27, 2012, S Ahmed wrote:

> I do have it in my spec_helper, does it have to be inside the RSpec.config
> block?
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Andy Lindeman <alindeman at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'alindeman at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1020 at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'sahmed1020 at gmail.com');>>
>> wrote:
>> > How can I do this?
>>
>> If it's truly something that just needs to be loaded once and then is
>> used without mutation in any number of tests, you might just set it to
>> a constant in spec_helper.rb:
>>
>> CONFIG = YAML.load("...")
>>
>> MyClass.new(CONFIG)
>>
>> --
>> Andy Lindeman
>> http://www.andylindeman.com/
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>

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