On 20.10.2008, at 22.05, Ashley Moran wrote:
There is an API for this though[2], and it was deprecated as of RC1,
but has now apparently been reintroduced.
Lawrence Pit on the merb list explains the syntax:
# ==== Example
# dispatch_to(MyController, :create, :name => 'Homer' ) do
|controller|
# controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@user)
# end
Yeah, I was using that API to a great extent with a recent project and
was pretty successful at doing outside-in development with rspec and
merb. The syntax used in merb controller specs is a bit different from
what Rails uses, but once you got around it, it was actually pretty
cool and flexible. Here's a snippet from a controller spec in the
project:
http://pastie.org/private/6uijgfwwzjngvhbkgxwqq
Note that I generally stub both render and display for the controller
to make the tests run faster.
There's probably a lot of optimization left to do with the specs but I
find the dispatch helpers pretty cool for building more specialized
methods such as do_post.
I hope the merb folks will keep us outside-(s)inners in mind and not
scrap the API.
Cheers,
//jarkko
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