rspec testing; how to test a subclass that requires another class

[Trey Ormsbee]

I have a puppet module that I am not sure hot to write a test for:  Example below:

class appsuite (

  $param1,

  $param2,

  $param3,

  $param4,

) {

  include appsuite::params

  include appsuite::repo

  include appsuite::preconfig

}

#nothing in params, repo or preconfig really matter,  other then preconfig lays down a shared settings file: /etc/appsuite/settings 

# /etc/appsuite/settings is required to be in place during the install of any component of appsuite as it is sued to do its own setup.

So then I have a seperate class

class appsuite::component1 (

  $component_param1,

  $component_param2,

) {

  ...

  package { 'component1': ensure => installed }

  ...

}

Now, class appsuite::component1 requires appsuite to be defined and all those classes to be ran before it starts all it's magic.  How do I test that?

I got this

describe 'appsuite' do

  context "test appsuite" do

    let :params do {

      param1 = 'blah1',

      param2 = 'blah2',

      param3 = 'blah3',

      param4 = 'blah4',

    }

    end

    it { is_expected.to contain_file('/etc/appsuite/settings').with({'mode' => '0644'}) }

  end

end

Now the above works fine,  but I do not understand how to then call appsuite::component1 from that test with those parameters,   I tried nesting in the descibe,  but it then says i need to pass params to appsuite.  Seems like this would be a pretty common thing to do so I hope I am just missing something.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Trey

[Gavin Williams]

Trey

You can use "let(:pre_condition)" to include any dependencies when testing...

E.g. https://github.com/fatmcgav/fatmcgav-glassfish/blob/develop/spec/classes/install_spec.rb#L14

Gav

[Trey Ormsbee]

Thank you,  That is exactly what I was looking for.  It's hard to actually google that info :\