On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Joseph Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Glen wrote: >> 1. Is there a way to stub out the model to return some fixture-type >> records? >> 2. Does anyone have an idea as to how we could refactor this into a >> better pattern? Those 2 "projects" are pretty specific to the >> production data and will "never be edited," but it still doesn't make >> me comfortable. >> >> I'm not sure how to phrase this better. Let me know what other detail >> I can provide to make it more clear what I'm looking for. >> >> thanks, >> tim > > As Pat said I would avoid mocking/stubbing, you want your cucumber tests > to cut through all the layers of your app including touching the > database. > > As for setting up the data, I tend not to use fixtures (I only want to > have the data created for certain tests). Instead I save the relevant > models in the Given steps, preparing for the feature test. If you are > going to repeat the given steps a lot I would extract the model set-up > into a ruby function and reuse this.
You might also take a look at http://github.com/flogic/object_daddy. Cheers, David > > -- > Joseph Wilk > http://www.joesniff.co.uk > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
