[rspec-users] Using RSpec and Cucumber with Rails 3 Engines
Brandon Olivares
I recently upgraded to Rails 3 beta, a few weeks ago. One thing I would
really like to do is to develop components of my application, because some
of them I'd really like to be able to reuse on other projects. I know how to
make engines well enough, but it seems difficult or impossible to test them
with RSpec and Cucumber. At least with Cucumber, it won't run because it's
not a normal Rails application.
Is there a way to get around this, or what alternative would you recommend?
Thanks,
Brandon
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aslak hellesoy
<program...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded to Rails 3 beta, a few weeks ago. One thing I would
> really like to do is to develop components of my application, because some
> of them I'd really like to be able to reuse on other projects. I know how to
> make engines well enough, but it seems difficult or impossible to test them
> with RSpec and Cucumber. At least with Cucumber, it won't run because it's
> not a normal Rails application.
>
> Is there a way to get around this, or what alternative would you recommend?
>
Have a test app that uses your engine, and that has cucumber and rspec tests.
Aslak
Matt Wynne
On 29 Jun 2010, at 06:54, aslak hellesoy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Brandon Olivares
> <program...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently upgraded to Rails 3 beta, a few weeks ago. One thing I would
>> really like to do is to develop components of my application, because some
>> of them I'd really like to be able to reuse on other projects. I know how to
>> make engines well enough, but it seems difficult or impossible to test them
>> with RSpec and Cucumber. At least with Cucumber, it won't run because it's
>> not a normal Rails application.
>>
>> Is there a way to get around this, or what alternative would you recommend?
>>
>
> Have a test app that uses your engine, and that has cucumber and rspec tests.
>
> Aslak
A good example of an engine tested with Cucumber is:
http://github.com/21croissants/courgette
There's a rails app in fixtures_rails_root. Check out the neat trick in the config/environment.rb[1] to load the engine from wherever you want.
[1] http://github.com/21croissants/courgette/blob/master/fixture_rails_root/config/environment.rb