On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 16:03, Derek Prior <derekpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a newcomer to the list. Appologies if this has been discussed before, > but all I could find with regards to specing scopes relates to those that > filter records or apply sorting. What's the best way to spec a scope that > uses the includes method? For instance: > class Location < ActiveRecord.Base > belongs_to: holiday_schedule > scope: with_holiday_schedule, includes(:holiday_schedule) > end > describe Location do > describe Location, "::with_holiday_schedule" > it "includes holiday schedule information to avoid N+1 queries" do > pending "a good way to check this..." > end > end > end > I've seen some references to hooking into ActiveSupport::Notifications for > ActiveRecord SQL and then counting the SQL statements, though the code I've > seen to do this is far from pretty. Does anyone have a better idea? >From what I understand, this is purely a performance enhancement, so I'd expect only to check it with performance tests. In this case, I would think that a timed test would do the job. It won't be fast, but it'll work, and you won't be tempted to use it as a behavior test, since this seems like an issue of implementation and not behavior. -- J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger :: http://www.jbrains.ca :: http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com Author, JUnit Recipes Free Your Mind to Do Great Work :: http://www.freeyourmind-dogreatwork.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
