I think a better approach would be testing each module in isolation for its
intended purpose. So in other words, try JUST pulling in Rendering into a
Metal and see that it actually can support all the rendering cases in the
Rendering module.

Yehuda Katz
Developer | Engine Yard
(ph) 718.877.1325


On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Jeroen van Dijk <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for pointing me to that file. I guess I should use require
> "activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/isolation" and use railties/
> test/isolation/abstract_unit.rb as an example.
>
> I was thinking of creating the file actionpack/test/dependency_test.rb
> that will test all dependencies for actionpack. This file would have
> tests like:
>
> test "require ActionDispatch::Integration::Session" do
>  require 'action_dispatch/testing/integration'
>  ActionDispatch::Integration::Session
> end
>
> Do you think that's the way to go?
>
> Jeroen
>
> On Feb 27, 8:52 pm, Yehuda Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is actually what the Isolated test case is for. You'll see that we
> use
> > it extensively in Railties specifically to isolate tests from added
> > dependencies.
> >
> > Yehuda Katz
> > Developer | Engine Yard
> > (ph) 718.877.1325
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Jeroen van Dijk <
> >
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > When hacking on rails 3 I have discovered some missing requires. For
> > > example, when I wanted to use ActionDispatch::Integration::Session, it
> > > get an error because Test::Unit::Assertions is used but 'test/unit/
> > > assertions' is not required.
> >
> > > So I have tried to build a patch for this situation. Well actually,
> > > the creation of the patch is simple, but how do you test (with test/
> > > unit) that we can use this class without requiring its dependency
> > > 'test/unit/assertions'? To have a real test case I would need an
> > > isolated environment which would require the class, but would not
> > > require any other dependency. One thing that is hard, is that the
> > > rails test suite itself already loads a lot of necessary dependencies
> > > which would make it hard to write a failing test for these cases (see
> > > 'abstract_unit'  in actionpack/lib/test).
> >
> > > Anyhow, when I wrote a first test case I got a chain of dependency
> > > issues so I think it is worth to investigate this, but I can't really
> > > think of a way to include it in the current test suite.
> >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > > Jeroen
> >
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