Confusion in cracking open the test helpers

[ak.from.w...@gmail.com]

I just adopted minitest-rails as my testing gem of choice. I'm migrating from an earlier instance where the code in my "minitest_helper.rb" had the individual testing file classes inheriting from MiniTest::Spec.

It looks like the new direction is to make the test classes inherit directly from the Rails classes in anticipation of Rails 4, is that right? So I see this in the new default test_helper.rb file:

  class ActiveSupport::TestCase

    # Setup all fixtures in test/fixtures/*.(yml|csv) for all tests in alphabetical order.

    # fixtures :all

    # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...

  end

It sounds like I am supposed to put all of the things inside this one block that I used to have in different subclasses inheriting from MiniTest::Spec:

class MiniTest::Spec

  include ActiveSupport::Testing::SetupAndTeardown

  alias :method_name :__name__ if defined? :__name__

  DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation

  before :each do

    DatabaseCleaner.clean

  end

end

class IntegrationTest < MiniTest::Spec

  include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers

  include Capybara::DSL

  register_spec_type(/integration$/, self)

end

class HelperTest < MiniTest::Spec

  include ActiveSupport::Testing::SetupAndTeardown

  include ActionView::TestCase::Behavior

  register_spec_type(/helper$/i, self)

end

How do I move these changes into the new code that cracks open ActiveSupport::TestCase? Am I supposed to even have any of these "helpers" any more, or am I just supposed to put those "includes" straight in the ActiveSupport::TestCase block? Thanks for your help. I just spent about 3 days getting most of this working with guard and spork, which was complicated, but mostly because I am new to TDD and BDD and needed to learn some of the internals of all these gems.

[ak.from.w...@gmail.com]

And by the way, skipped tests are throwing an obscene stack trace:

PlansHelper

     SKIP (0:00:11.734) 0001 must be a real test

          (no tests defined)

        @ /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/activesupport-3.2.13/lib/active_support/testing/setup_and_teardown.rb:36:in `block in run'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/activesupport-3.2.13/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:447:in `_run__2733473949102101995__setup__1641485481228920732__callbacks'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/activesupport-3.2.13/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:405:in `__run_callback'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/activesupport-3.2.13/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:385:in `_run_setup_callbacks'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/activesupport-3.2.13/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:81:in `run_callbacks'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/activesupport-3.2.13/lib/active_support/testing/setup_and_teardown.rb:35:in `run'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/bundler/gems/spork-minitest-spec-f619f85d0fdf/lib/spork/test_framework/minitest.rb:53:in `run_tests'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:13:in `block in run'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:21:in `block in initialize'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:18:in `fork'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/forker.rb:18:in `initialize'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:9:in `new'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:9:in `run'

          /Users/me/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@myapp/gems/spork-0.9.2/lib/spork/server.rb:48:in `run'

          /Users/me/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1548:in `perform_without_block'

          /Users/me/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1508:in `perform'

          /Users/me/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1586:in `block (2 levels) in main_loop'

          /Users/me/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1582:in `loop'

          /Users/me/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1582:in `block in main_loop'