On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Wincent Colaiuta <w...@wincent.com> wrote:
> El 05/01/2010, a las 21:52, Phillip Koebbe escribió: > > > Pat Maddox wrote: >> >>> The spec has Admin::BaseController as the described type. So of course >>> it's going to test against that. If you want to test a different class, you >>> need to describe that instead! >>> >> >> Hi Pat, >> >> Right. But, I'm not really wanting to test a different class. My intention >> is to put the require_admin in the base_controller and have all the admin >> controllers descend from it, so I don't have to duplicate the before_filter. >> I was trying to be simple and make a request to a controller that descends >> from base_controller, thinking that if it got through and didn't redirect to >> the error page, it worked. How would you suggest I test that >> > > I test inherited stuff with shared behaviors. It might be something you > could use here. > > Basically, I have a bunch of behavior in my ApplicationController, for > example, and in my spec/controllers/application_controller_spec.rb file I > have a bunch of blocks like this: > > describe ApplicationController, 'protected methods', :shared => true do > ... > end > > describe ApplicationController, 'parameter filtering', :shared => true do > ... > end > > And I then group them all together in one more shared behavior: > > describe ApplicationController, :shared => true do > it_should_behave_like 'ApplicationController protected methods' > it_should_behave_like 'ApplicationController parameter filtering' > ... > end > > And finally in all subclasses which inherit I can now just do: > > describe ArticlesController do > it_should_behave_like 'ApplicationController' > ... > end > > So the behavior inherited from the superclass is specified, but it is also > tested independently by the inheriting subclasses. > Yay! > > I imagine the same idea might be adaptable in some way for your use case. > > Cheers, > Wincent > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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