trying to do TDD! Can't test sidekiq workers called by models

[Chew Manfoo]

here's what I see: https://gist.github.com/chewmanfoo/9b13c52c8ba409e25bc0

I started sidekiq like this:

bundle exec sidekiq -etest

here's my test:

  test "should execute action when executed" do

    ps = PathState.create(:name => "TestName", :action => "touch /tmp/PathStateTest")

    ps.execute

    result = `[ -f /tmp/PathStateTest ] && echo 0 || echo 1`

    assert result==0, "OOPS! PathState doesn't execute action when executed!"

  end

here's my PathState model:

class PathState < ActiveRecord::Base

  validates :name, presence: true

  def execute

    PathStateRunner.perform_async(id)

  end

end

here's PathStateRunner:

class PathStateRunner

  include Sidekiq::Worker

  sidekiq_options :retry => 2, :backtrace => true # job will retry according to retry mechanism specified

  sidekiq_retry_in do |count|

    15 * (count + 1) # (i.e. 15, 30, 45)

  end

  sidekiq_retries_exhausted do |msg|

    Sidekiq.logger.warn "---> Failed #{msg['class']} with #{msg['args']}: #{msg['error_message']}"

  end

  def perform(path_state_id)

    ps = PathState.find(path_state_id)

    @result = `#{ps.action} 2>&1`

    unless $?.exitstatus.zero?

      # failed state

      Sidekiq.logger.warn "---> PathStateRunner worker failed action: '#{ps.action}'"

    end

  end

end

What gives?

[Mike Perham]

You should not be running Sidekiq in the test environment.  The test runner will silently roll back database transactions so your scenario won't work.

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[Chew Manfoo]

Mike - sorry I know you're busy.  one more question:

So, you just don't test things that interact with sidekiq?  i.e. I can't make this test run so I should just delete this test?  I'm new to TDD.

[Mike Perham]

Did you read the Testing wiki page? https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Testing

You test the "two" sides to Sidekiq:

1. Verify that jobs are created by your controllers/models.  This verifies that a job will push to Redis.

  assert_equal 1, MyWorker.jobs.size

2. Verify that jobs execute correctly.  This verifies that a job pulled from Redis will run.

  MyWorker.new.perform(some, args)

  assert_something

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