Robert Walker wrote in post #956180:
> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #956174:
>> Robert Walker wrote in post #956169:
>>> Steve Ross wrote in post #956143:
>>>> On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Ishit Parikh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I want test case in rspec for:
>>>>> @drugs = Drug.where('drug_category_id = ?', params[:id])
>>>
>>> Assuming this line is in a controller action...
>>
>> ...then you shouldn't be writing RSpec specs for it at all. Use
>> Cucumber instead.
>
> Agreed, but the OP asked about RSpec, so I showed an RSpec example.
OK, fair enough.
[...]
> Agreed, but was attempting to show "pure" RSpec rather than RSpec plus
> something else. Also, as you said using mocks can take more setup,
Yeah, to the point where I think they're more trouble than they're
worth, and may actually be dangerous for AR models.
> but
> they can also provide a performance boost for specs that don't actually
> require hitting a database. I'll have to put some more thought in to
> using an in-memory database for testing. That's intriguing.
The idea is not original with me (I'm not such a performance weenie that
I'd think of that myself :) ). SQLite can operate in in-memory mode,
which I think is where the idea came from.
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