On Mar 13, 5:55 pm, Karl Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Makes sense. My only confusion is I thought that in ruby methods and
> attributes can be imported to a class either through inheritance or
> importing a module. In this case, these extra attributes such as "session"
> or "cookies" do not exist within the parent class nor the imported module.
> Is rails including extra modules within my classes at runtime?
> Thanks for your help!
>
You can also just reopen a class and add methods to it. if my memory
is correct that is what rails does to Test::Unit::TestCase.
Fred
> -karl
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Frederick Cheung <
>
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 13, 3:38 am, Karl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Being new to rails and ruby, I am trying to figure out how things fit
> > > together. In particular i am trying to understand how attributes such
> > > as "session" and "cookies" are made available to Controller tests.
> > > Specifically I am working on a test from the RailsSpace book which
> > > extends Test::Unit::TestCase and only imports the module
> > > ApplicationHelper while attributes such as cookies and session are
> > > defined within the ActionController::TestProcess module. I cannot
> > > figure out how module ActionController::TestProcess is included within
> > > the UserControllerTest.
>
> > The test_helper file that you require at the top of your test file in
> > turn requires a bunch of stuff, in particular a file that adds those
> > methods to test cases.
>
> > Fred
>
> > > require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
> > > require 'user_controller'
>
> > > # Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
> > > class UserController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
>
> > > class UserControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
> > > include ApplicationHelper
>
> > > ..
> > > ..
> > > def authorize(user)
> > > @request.session[:user_id] = user.id
> > > end
>
> > > def friendly_url_forwarding_aux(test_page, protected_page, user)
> > > get protected_page
> > > assert_response :redirect
> > > assert_redirected_to :action => "login"
> > > post test_page, :user => user
> > > assert_response :redirect
> > > assert_redirected_to :action => protected_page
> > > assert_nil session[:protected_page]
> > > end
>
> > > def cookie_value(symbol)
> > > cookies[symbol.to_s].value.first
> > > end
>
> > > def cookie_expires(symbol)
> > > cookies[symbol.to_s].expires
> > > end
>
> > > thx.
>
> > > -karl
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