Hi all, I'm new to this list as well as to engines in general. I am taking my first stab at writing an engine and am having a little trouble getting the tests for my engine working. Everything else is working at this point, e.g. controllers, models, migrations, etc. The last step is to get testing working.
Can I get a general overview on how tests are supposed to work? I'm using Rails 1.2.1 and the release branch of Engines 1.2. Basically, at this point, I copied the tests from the surrounding application in to my engine's test folder, so my dir structure looks like my_engine - app - lib - ... - test - fixtures/ - functional/ - integration/ - mocks/ - unit/ - test_helper.rb Problems I'm having: 1). Fixtures don't seem to be loading. I read in the docs that I need to call Engines::Testing.set_fixture_path first, but a) I couldn't get it to recognize Engines, and b) it looks like the rake plugins:units task does this for me—I think. 2). I had a file in my engine's lib folder that I need to include. I couldn't get it to include normally. I ended up getting it to work with: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../lib/authenticated_test_helper' include AuthenticatedTestHelper where I used to be able to call include AuthenticatedTestHelper by itself. Are files in lib not automatically loaded? 3). In my original test_helper.rb there is the TestCase section, where you set certain options like self.use_transactional_fixtures, I was unable to get this to work. So, right now, I've commented them out. 4). What requires should be where? In the original files, there's ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test" require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment") require 'test_help' in test_helper.rb - Do these still need to be in my engine's test_helper.rb? I think that's about it. Through various tracking down errors, I've managed to get the tests to run, but am still getting errors whenever my test calls up a fixture with something like users(:trey). Because I've done so much random tweaking, I thought I'd ask what the preferred way is. Trey
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