2010/3/11 Nicolás Sanguinetti <godf...@gmail.com>:
> Interesting:
>
> describe SomeModule do
> describe "Bar", :type => :controller do
> controller_name "blah"
> end
> end
You can only set the type in the outermost-nested group. The reason
for this is that the nested groups are subclasses of the outer group.
So you could do this:
describe SomeModule, :type => :controller do
describe "Bar" do
controller_name "blah"
end
end
and it should work.
HTH,
David
>
> Doesn't work, while
>
> describe SomeModule do
> end
>
> describe "Bar", :type => :controller do
> controller_name "blah"
> end
>
> does.
>
> 2010/3/11 Nicolás Sanguinetti <godf...@gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Scott Taylor <sc...@railsnewbie.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Nicolás Sanguinetti wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have an app that has "extensions" that are built as rails engines.
>>>> Each engine needs some code in the controllers, which we solved as
>>>> "include this module, call a method". In order to test it, though, we
>>>> don't want to "copy" the test for how that works into each engine, so
>>>> the idea is to write the tests once, in 'spec/lib/extensions_spec.rb',
>>>> where we are testing the other stuff that's common for all the
>>>> extensions (which are defined on lib/extensions.rb, thus the spec's
>>>> location)
>>>>
>>>> In order to do it, I'm declaring a 'sample' controller in the specs
>>>> (just include the module, call the method), and then writing a couple
>>>> specs for what we are doing. Problem is, I can't get rspec to
>>>> understand that that example group is a controller example groups.
>>>>
>>>> I have
>>>>
>>>> class MyExampleController < ApplicationController
>>>> include Extensions::ControllerHelpers
>>>> call_awesome_method # this, among other things, defines an
>>>> instance method on the controller that I want to test
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> inside my spec, and after that I tried:
>>>>
>>>> 1) describe("controller helpers", :type => :controller) {
>>>> controller_name "my_example"; ... }
>>>>
>>>> It complains about controller_name not being a method of this dynamic
>>>> subclass of ActiveSupport::TestCase.
>>>
>>> That seems like a really strange error. What is the actual stack trace?
>>
>> ./spec/lib/extensions_spec.rb:20: undefined method `controller_name'
>> for ActiveSupport::TestCase::Subclass_1:Class (NoMethodError)
>> from
>> $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:183:in
>> `module_eval'
>> from
>> $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:183:in
>> `subclass'
>> from
>> $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_group_methods.rb:55:in
>> `describe'
>> from
>> $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/example/example_group_factory.rb:31:in
>> `create_example_group'
>> from $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/dsl/main.rb:28:in `describe'
>> from ./spec/lib/extensions_spec.rb:19
>> from
>> $gem_path/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
>> `load_without_new_constant_marking'
>> from
>> $gem_path/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
>> `load'
>> from
>> $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:15:in
>> `load_files'
>> from
>> $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in `each'
>> from
>> $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in
>> `load_files'
>> from $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/options.rb:133:in
>> `run_examples'
>> from $gem_path/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/command_line.rb:9:in `run'
>> from script/spec:10
>>
>> (sanitized it a bit)
>>
>>> What versions of the test-unit gem do you have installed? What version of
>>> rails? rspec? If you uninstall the test-unit gem, will it work with the
>>> :type => :controller hash given to describe?
>>
>> This is using rails 2.3.5, rspec 1.3.0, and rspec-rails 1.3.2. I do
>> not have test-unit on this system, I have mocha 0.9.8 (though it
>> shouldn't be required in the environment by anyone here)
>>
>>> (I've noticed *very* strange things with the test-unit gem installed in the
>>> past - such as a test suite which was 100% green, using a hybrid of mocha +
>>> rspec mocks/stubs. When the gem was uninstalled, half the test suite
>>> failed!)
>>>
>>>> After some time reading the source I figured that :type => :controller
>>>> pretty much just works for config.include/config.extend. So on to the
>>>> next thing:
>>>
>>> Have you taken a look at Spec::Example::ExampleGroupFactory?
>>
>> Ah, darn, I hadn't gotten that far into rspec's rabbit hole, and
>> missed the reference in rspec-rails. That's what you get for trying to
>> debug stuff at 4am :) So, :type => :controller should be enough, then.
>>
>> Still, doing:
>>
>> describe MyExampleController, :type => :controller do
>> it "should do stuff" do
>> controller.should_receive(:foo)
>> controller.extension.bar
>> end
>> end
>>
>> Fails with 'undefined local variable or method `controller' for
>> #<ActiveSupport::TestCase::Subclass_1::Subclass_4:0x1075ca230>'
>>
>> And replacing controller with @controller gives me 'undefined method
>> `bar' for nil:NilClass'. Which is pretty much the same results I got a
>> few hours ago before going to sleep :(
>>
>> …So :type => :controller is apparently not enough for rspec to pick up on
>> this.
>>
>>> Not sure if this will help, but here's a patch that brynary and I banged
>>> out way back in rspec 1.1.9 to support spec/unit & spec/integration: (the
>>> usual disclaimer applies - all the good parts are his, all the bad parts
>>> are mine)
>>>
>>> http://gist.github.com/328919
>>
>> Thanks :)
>>
>>> That piece of the code might at least take you to a place where you can
>>> debug what's going on.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
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