Thanks for the help. I finally got the test suite running!
Simply moving the directory, caused some issue with the adva test
script. Then after editing the test script to look at the right
script in /adva_cms there were some other path issues. I followed the
directions to do a manual install w/o the template and removed the
following line from adva_newsletter:
config.plugin_gem 'addressable', :version => '~> 2.1.0', :lib =>
'addressable/uri'
Then I was able to run the test suite (with some complaints and
failures about missing addressable). It's not perfect, but at least I
can write tests for adva now. Thanks!