Hi Rick - Thanks again.
Cool - I see what you mean about what the story steps should get
involved with, and what should be left to the specs.
In that case, my response.should have_tag('li', @title) is a
reasonable test, and I'll leave it at that!
All the best,
Steven
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:16 AM, steven shingler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Rick,
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > You are right that this step is basically testing the basic actions of
> > a controller, and is being run as part of a story_with_steps stack.
> > The step itself is definitely being hit, because I have a:
> > response.should have_tag('li', @title)
> > ...in the same step, and that is working nicely.
> >
> > This step is called right after clicking an Update button, which is a
> > standard rails scaffold and does a: redirect_to(@task) - this causes a
> > partial to be rendered to the screen as part of my default layout, and
> > I was hoping to be able to verify that the partial loaded.
> >
> > What would fit my brain better, would be:
> > response.should render_partial("tasks/list")
>
> Except that responses don't render anything, controllers do which
> result in the body of the response.
>
> Also even if this were
>
> controller.should render_partial...
>
> I can't see how this would work, since it seems to involve backwards
> time travel. In a controller spec you use
>
> controller.expect_render(:partial => ...)
>
> BEFORE doing a get/post etc. It works like x.should_receive(:foo)
> it's something which needs to be set up before something happens.
>
>
> > ...but that isn't available :)
> >
> > I hope that is clearer - I am quite new to the world of rspec.
> > If you can shed any more light that would be really great.
>
> Rails integration testing happens in the context of a simulated
> browser. It's awkward, if indeed it's possible at all, to instrument
> the mechanisms of controllers and templates here. This is normally
> done in controller and/or view specs.
>
> At the story/integration level, I think you really want to be looking
> at the result of the http requests, which means you should be setting
> expectations about what's in the response rather than how the response
> is going to be constructed.
>
> So instead of trying to determine if the tasks_list partial is being
> rendered, why not do something like having the partial generate
> evidence that it was invoked in the output, for example it might
> generate a div or ol or whatever which contains the tasks list which
> has a particular dom id, and then use response.should have_tag to
> verify that the task list is in the response?
>
> --
>
>
> Rick DeNatale
>
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