Thanks Ed I'll give this a shot too. I was able to get the activerecord part working though. My problem was testing the controller that I wanted to generate for the rails app.
Things that I'm used to being in the controller spec (get, put, etc) aren't, because this RSpec installation is outside of rails. If I could do this without putting a whole app I'd gladly do so as it sounds cleaner. Those methods come from action_controller/test_unit or active_support/test_unit. I tried including both but it didn't work, and it's still fuzzy to me. Now, if I waste too much time figuring this out, I may just do what aslak suggested: put those tests in a rails app and write tests for the app that is using this gem. In my mind it sounds slow, as aslak probably has an automatic method to do this, but it definitely sounds easier than learning what needs to be included/required. On Wednesday, March 31, 2010, Ed Howland <ed.howl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ramon, > > Just a thought or 2. > > I'd still test/spec your gem outside of any Rails app, and I wouldn't > use a sample Rails app in the spec folder. > > It sounds to me that you are writing a 'acts_as_xxxxx' type extension > to ActiveRecord. You should only need the AR gem installed as a > development dep for the gem. > > You'd need: > gem.add_development_dependency "factory_girl", ">= 0" > gem.add_development_dependency "rspec", ">= 0" > gem.add_dependency 'activerecord', ">= 2.3" > > in your Rakefile. Note the use of FactoryGirl. This should help you > fake stuff out for testing. No need for the full Rails stack, when all > you need is to create > some models. > > In my case, I created a models folder in my gem and put my usual model > files in there. Then I require all of them in a Dir[].each block in my > soec_helper.rb. > With FactoryGirl, you don't even need to require them first, but in > your case you probably need to to get the 'acts_as_xxxx' > functionality. > > HTH > > > Cheers, > Ed > > Ed Howland > http://greenprogrammer.wordpress.com > http://twitter.com/ed_howland -- Ramon Tayag - what you think, we ink http://theinksquad.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
