On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On my website each user can have the following roles:
>
> 1) Not logged in
>
> 2) Logged in
> - active
> - administrator
> - sysadministrator
>
>
>
> How would you write DRY specs to test each action of a controller?
>
> Currently I am doing somethings that looks like:
> --
> describe 'a non admin is signed in', :shared => true do
> before(:each) do
> @current_user = mock_model(User, :id => 1, :state => 'active')
> controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
> @current_user.should_receive(:administrator?).and_return(false)
> @current_user.should_receive(:sysadministrator?).and_return(false)
> end
> end
>
> describe 'an administrator is signed in', :shared => true do
> before(:each) do
> @current_user = mock_model(User, :id => 1, :state =>
> 'administrator')
> controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
> @current_user.should_receive(:administrator?).and_return(true)
> end
> end
>
> describe Admin::OrdersController, 'index' do
>
> describe "A non admin wants to have access" do
> it_should_behave_like 'a non admin is signed in'
>
> it "should redirect" do
> get :index
> response.should redirect_to(products_url)
> end
> end
>
> describe "An admin wants to have access" do
> it_should_behave_like 'an administrator is signed in'
>
> it "should render index page" do
> controller.should_receive(:select_date_initializer).with({},nil)
> Order.should_not_receive(:admin_find_from_params)
>
> get :index
> end
>
> it "should accept search params on index page" do
> Order.should_receive(:admin_find_from_params).with('test.host',
> {}, {})
>
> get :index, :commit => 'Search'
> end
> end
>
> end # describe Admin::OrdersController, 'index'
> ---
>
> I didn't test for the sysadministrator as it would force me to repeat
> all the tests for administrator, basically a sysadministrator has
> administrator rights and more. What is a better way of writing such
> specs?
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One thing I've been trying lately is to share shared spec (somewhat like
inheritance). I too have many tests that a essentially duplicates of each
other. So by factoring out commonalities and differences, I'd have something
like
module NonAdminSpec
describe 'acting like a non-admin', :shared => true
before :each # log in as a non admin
describe 'something that only applies to a NonAdmin' do #
end
module
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