I'm using stories with Webrat, and really like it. As mentioned, it doesn't cover the JavaScript bit, but so far that's ok, we don't have enough that I can't just test it manually (dread!).
But, yes, since starting to use stories, I'd guess I've written maybe two or three controller tests, and have wound up deleting many of my view tests (and don't use Rails integration tests at all). So, essentially, what it's boiling down to for me, is that I have my examples for models, and then use stories for everything else. There have been a few tricky cases to do with stories, but otherwise I just like it far better, and feel it's a much better and more effective way to test since it's going to emulate what really happens on your site. One of the things that's driven me to using stories so much more is the fragile nature of the other tests, in that it seems like view and controller tests break so much more easily with various changes, whereas stories don't. This likely depends on how much you test the precise text and such on a page. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Matt Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using rspec / rails for just over a week now, and I'm loving > the specification framework. The way I can group examples together > feels really natural, and I'm finding the TDD flow terrific. > > Thus far I've used the describe / it "should..." syntax to basically do > TDD of my controllers, views and models, with splendid isolation using > the mocking framework. I've yet to write any 'integrations tests', in > fact I'm not yet clear how much value they have. > > What originally attracted me to rspec was hearing Dan North talk about > the plain text stories, and I had some fun in my previous life as a C# > programmer using them to drive watir tests of an ASP.NET app. > > What I'm not sure about is how they're most appropriately used in rails. > > Are people generally using them, as I was in the .NET world, to drive > selenium/watir acceptance tests, or do they have value as replacements > to the rails 'integration tests'? > > How about webrat? or some other glue / tool that I haven't heard of yet? > > Just a quick answer from anyone out there using these tools would be > great in order to get a feel for the current state of the art, and some > fresh fuel for my googling! > > Sorry if this post is a bit rambling... thanks for bearing with me as I > scramble up the learning curve! > > cheers, > Matt > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- Christopher Bailey Cobalt Edge LLC http://cobaltedge.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
