I've been beating my head against this for a couple of hours now, and
I'm a bit frustrated, so I apologize in advance.
I'm trying to use rspec to test an order processing system, which uses
google checkout. The idea was to have a couple of orders in the
database in various stages, and hit the notifier interface to make
sure that everything transitioned to the right place. However, I
can't get to this, because rspec seems to silently blow-up somewhere.
This code "passes":
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
describe OrdersController do
integrate_views
fixtures :orders
it "should set the right order amount" do
prepare_order_mock
post "subscribe", {:sub_type => "1"}
fail "This should throw an error"
end
end
It then returns: "0 examples, 0 failures".
How is such a thing possible? This seems like a serious problem; I
would expect an exception from somewhere inside of the post, or the
fail message. Instead everything is green.
My only hypothesis is that since I'm creating an order object and
calling a bunch of methods on it and somehow that's verbotten. The
docs mention suggests mocking domain objects -- which seems if not
completely misguided at least seriously counter-intuitive -- and
perhaps this has something to do with it. But silently imploding
seems more like a bug.
I should mention that the controller actually works in Real Life, but
I was trying to get a little piece of mind and work out all the
permutations in a test just to make sure. And failing silently is
worse than no testing at all.
Taking a few deep breaths,
-w
_______________________________________________
rspec-users mailing list
rspec-users@rubyforge.org
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
