On 19 Jul 2010, at 19:05, Walther Diechmann wrote: > Hi, > > my question unwields me as a complete noob - which is okay - but I > apologize for this totally basic question <:) > > I've bought the PragProg Rspec Book and googled, been reading blogs and > what-have-I-not, but nowhere have I been able to find information > detailing how I setup a BDD environment for testing the construction of > a Gem. > > I have a ../gem_folder which I hope eventually will be a Gem to use with > Rails 3 and I really would like to upload it to GitHub with a good test > coverage. > > From the Rspec Book I've learned that within Rails Apps, I use Cucumber > and WebRat (among others) - but the book does not (or at least Iøve not > been able to discover it) show how to setup the environment, without the > Rails App. > > I guess my question could boil down to: how do I create the environment > (folders, files) to test a Gem meant to work with Rails? > > So far I have: > > ../gem_folder > ../gem_folder/features > ../gem_folder/lib > ../gem_folder/pkg > ../gem_folder/spec > > and a few files like Rakefile, Manifest, CHANGELOG, LICENSE - and I'm > able to push to Gemcutter and GitHub > > but where in this picture does the Rails App fit in? How do I make sure > that the Gem will work went installed/utilized on Rails App's > > best regards, > Walther > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
The rspec-rails gem is probably a good example for you to read for ideas. http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/tree/master > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users cheers, Matt http://blog.mattwynne.net +44(0)7974 430184 _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
