[rspec-users] spec-ing private methods?

hello there, how do you tipically spec private methods? The thing is Ï have something like this: def some_method complex_method + other_complex_methods end private def complex_method... def other_complex_methods ... and the two complex methods can get really tricky to get right, I would like

Re: [rspec-users] spec-ing private methods?

hello 2009/10/14 Ashley Moran > On 14 Oct 2009, at 20:49, Scott Taylor wrote: > >> On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Joaquin Rivera Padron wrote: >> >> private >>> def complex_method... >>> def other_complex_methods ... >>> >>> and the two

Re: [rspec-users] Testing .Net Newbie

hi 2010/1/14 John Polling > Phillip Koebbe wrote: > > > Hi John. Maybe this will help: > > > > http://www.pragprog.com/titles/achbd/the-rspec-book > > > > It's a good book. But when you get to the part about Webrat and > > Selenium, just know that there are other options if you need them. > > Al

Re: [rspec-users] Testing .Net Newbie

hey there there's also http://bddcasts.com with railscasts like bdd screencasts haven't check it much myself, but might deserve a look hth, joaquin 2010/1/14 Ashley Moran > > On Jan 14, 2010, at 1:17 pm, John Polling wrote: > > > I think this is the part that I'm confusing myself with as most

Re: [rspec-users] Question About Cleaning Up Specs?

those who knows more say the idea is to keep in the example only what is important for the example (but they surely say it even better than me) which is what you are doing +1, greetings, joaquin 2010/2/18 Matt Wynne > > On 18 Feb 2010, at 16:25, m...@franklakatos.com wrote: > > I know we are s

Re: [rspec-users] Do you still Write Tests First on code that is churning hard?

hi there, well I'm not a meister myself, but spec-ing something you don't know the outside result is a bit hard for me. I normally work in two modes: * hacking mode: that's when I'm trying to "see" if I can do something, if the result will run, getting to know the problem and such. In these mode I

[rspec-users] spec-ing a nested object is saved on the specs of the object it is nested into

hi there, I have a Rails model A, that has_one model B, model A have a method called save_nested_b that: * context 'invalid B params' ** context 'no nested B exists' => do nothing ** context 'nested B exists' => remove it * context 'valid B params' ** context 'no nested B exists' => create it

Re: [rspec-users] spec-ing a nested object is saved on the specs of the object it is nested into

the valid ones greetings, joaquin 2010/3/15 David Chelimsky > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Joaquin Rivera Padron > wrote: > > hi there, > > I have a Rails model A, that has_one model B, model A have a method > called > > save_nested_b that: > > * context &#

Re: [rspec-users] testing against a live environment

maybe then check http://github.com/cavalle/steak joaquin 2010/4/29 Martin DeMello > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Matt Wynne wrote: > > > > Should be fine, though you might find cucumber/aruba a nice combination > for > > this too. > > Cucumber seems to make things a lot more verbose :( Ver

[rspec-users] [OT] programming (OOP) principles resources

hi there, we all know good principles of OOP and P in general. But I found today that would be good to know which links (e.g [1] [2])books|reads would you recommend on the topic greetings, joaquin [1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrinciplesOfObjectOrientedDesign [2] http://www.industriallogic.com/paper

[rspec-users] shared examples in test unit?

hi, at work we use TestUnit, and I miss there a lot the shared_examples from RSpec, do you know if is there something alike for TestUnit? I know this might be a bit OT but I thought you probably might know :-) tia, joaquin -- para.pent.es vamos a volar, let's go flying least-significant-bit.com

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber feature checking sort order of list

> You ask how to implement such a step? yes > I've done this by using Hpricot - fetching the item-lines from the result into > an array and checking this for the right order. thanks Peter, seems I will give that a try, though I like you do not like very much joaquin __

[rspec-users] Cucumber feature checking sort order of list

hi there, I would like to assure in my scenario that the list shown is in the correct order (e.g. ASC or DESC). I can spec that but I feel it would be more client-oriented if I could do it in the feature... any ideas? thanks, joahking ___ rspec-users ma

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber feature checking sort order of list

> Matt Wynne: > How about something more like > >Given there are two items in a list: "Zulu and Abba" >And I have sorted the list alphabetically >Then "Abba" should appear before "Zulu" > > Then /"(.*)" should appear before "(.*)"/ do |first_example, > second_example| >response.bod

[rspec-users] Warning: cucumber and spec generators on rails 2.1.0

hey there, I've come back to one Rails 2.1.0 project and notice that using ruby script/generate rspec (or the cucumber one) produces this warning: Warning: Gem::SourceIndex#search support for Regexp patterns is deprecated the generators work anyway and this warning is not seeing on rails 2.1.[g

Re: [rspec-users] Warning: cucumber and spec generators on rails 2.1.0

ooops, The files generated with rails 2.1.0 with ruby script/generate cucumber are not good actually. When running features nothing got printed in console. I solved it by _sort of_ following one of your tips at lighthouse: * switch project to rails 2.1.2 * generated the cucumber files again *

[rspec-users] rack app to browse specs

hello there, Sometimes I find easier to browse my specs directly on the browser to have an overall idea of the logic. To do it I have put up a simple rack app to: - browse the contents of /spec directory on rails root - run each spec and view the html formatted output (it does spec FILE -f h) It

Re: [rspec-users] rack app to browse specs

hello there, I've added support to browse/run cucumber features to the app, check it out in gist: http://gist.github.com/43149 right now you can: browse your spec/ and features/ directory run specs and feature files living there. it is only a .rb script to put into spec (or features) directory I

Re: [rspec-users] [OT] Object Mother vs Test Data Builder (was Jay Fields' blog on developer testing)

hey fernando, maybe you want to take a look at http://www.patmaddox.com/blog/2009/1/15/how-i-test-controllers-2009-remix and give Cucumber a try regarding controllers spec-ing hth, joaquin ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://ruby

[rspec-users] testing out cucumber scenario outline feature

hey there, I've been playing with Scenario Outline according to cucumber wiki. I have paste the tests made in http://gist.github.com/59920 the short answers: http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/scenario-outlines seems inaccurate, Examples should be More Examples. Should I edit the wiki f

Re: [rspec-users] [OT] Object Mother vs Test Data Builder (was Jay Fields' blog on developer testing)

2009/2/7 Nick Hoffman > When writing Cucumber stories and features for controllers, should you > cover every edge case? For example, should you write stories that feed bad > or missing data to your controllers, or should that be left to RSpec? > -Nick the missing data case should be left for a

Re: [rspec-users] testing out cucumber scenario outline feature

hey thanks joseph, I tried this out: $ ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git -r 'tag 1.1.12' $ ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git -r 'tag 1.1.12' now Webrat finds correctly rspec-rails. Before it was a system gem and so it failed, and

Re: [rspec-users] Rspec approach to test model

kaleem, method new does not run your model validations, neither does your provided activate! implementation. but save indeed does. my guess is your mixing several contexts (cases, situations) in your single spec. Try decoupling all with more granular examples and you'll get to save shore :-) cheers

[rspec-users] Celerity and Webrat (using them together, Benchmarks, same API?)

hey there, I've been using Cucumber + Webrat for a while. The time has come to spec Js and Ajax, so I've been playing around with celerity features (with culerity until now). 1. How usefull would be to have a common API between Webrat and Celerity? I found usefull to translate webrat steps painle

Re: [rspec-users] Celerity and Webrat (using them together, Benchmarks, same API?)

hey Ben, thanks for your answers, I'll give kamal work a try and have a look at the points you are pointing about webrat. I've been playing with culerity for two days and it does not sound difficult to accomplish this we are talking. But I was talking from the culerity part (haven't look too much

[rspec-users] cucumber hooks BeforeAll and AfterAll

hey there, the short version: right now Cucumber provides hooks Before and After to be run around every step, I have notice some use case where BeforeAll and AfterAll hooks would be useful. are ther plans that they be provided? what you think would be the best place to do it (mother_step.rb)? any i

Re: [rspec-users] cucumber hooks BeforeAll and AfterAll

cool thanks, joaquin 2009/2/15 Ben Mabey > Zach Dennis wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Joaquin Rivera Padron >> wrote: >> >> >>> hey there, >>> the short version: >>> right now Cucumber provides hooks Before and After to

Re: [rspec-users] Culerity Error while running feature.

hey Kaleem, I am myself no expert on w$ but the line throwing the error is def self.run_server IO.popen("jruby #{__FILE__}", 'r+') end are you able to run popen calls in w$ ? try your irb and see, if not maybe there's some w$ expert who can help hope that helps joaquin

[rspec-users] Cucumber now runs Webrat and Celerity together

hey there, I have Cucumber running Webrat and Celerity (using culerity) together, check it out in the sample project: http://github.com/joahking/cukes/tree/masters It's a first try, but it runs. I get them by following a feature directory structure similar to the suggested in http://wiki.github.co

Re: [rspec-users] Culerity Error while running feature.

cool, I'll give that a try in short thanks joaquin 2009/2/22, aslak hellesoy : > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Joaquin Rivera Padron > wrote: >> hey Kaleem, >> I am myself no expert on w$ but the line throwing the error is >> def self.run_server >>

Re: [rspec-users] ANN Cucumber 0.2.0

> > Full release notes are available at > http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/blob/d0555e4ca8a133f020efefd5a755da04bde3f57d/History.txt > > (::) Aslak (::) wow! amazing how much the cukes have accomplished, keep on the good work cheers, joaquin -- www.least-significant-bit.com __

Re: [rspec-users] [Cucumber] Welcome Ben Mabey to the official Cucumber team

by the way, cool presentation at mountain west :-) congrats 2009/4/7 Scott Taylor > > On Apr 7, 2009, at 5:19 PM, aslak hellesoy wrote: > > Ben Mabey has accepted my invitation to be on the core Cucumber team. >> Ben has been a long time contributor to Cucumber's ecosystem and knows it >> insi

[rspec-users] Cucumber - step negating another expecting step

hey there, this here may be a little too general, and maybe is only a though sharing, but would be nice to hear what you think. What is your opinion about expectation steps that negates another expectation step? for example: let's say I have a step that specs something: Then /^I should see the p

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - step negating another expecting step

at the moment I do it this way, hiding the complexity out of the steps: Then /^I should see the people search form$/ do people_search_form_exists end Then /^I should not see the people search form$/ do people_search_form_exists "not" end and then the method: def people_search_form_exists ne

Re: [rspec-users] Rate my code: refactoring from spec

hey there, maybe you should take a look at solutions that fake your database in memory for such cases, saving your time doing all that stubbing and mocking, I don't remember right now but I think I saw some projects for such approach, maybe someone knows better than I do :-) hth joaquin __

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - step negating another expecting step

thanks matt, yes, the regexp in the step matcher is a good one to dry it up So I end up with this one: Then /^I (should|should not) see the people search form$/ do |maybe| people_search_form_should_exist maybe == "should" end and the method: def people_search_form_should_exist it_should_exist

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - step negating another expecting step

wow! even shorter :-) 2009/4/16 Matt Wynne > > On 16 Apr 2009, at 14:06, Joaquin Rivera Padron wrote: > > thanks matt, >> yes, the regexp in the step matcher is a good one to dry it up >> >> So I end up with this one: >> >> Then /^I (should|should n

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - step negating another expecting step

well, that was the vague idea I had when asking at first, but I don't think every multi-should or should_not step can be in general negated, by the way, Lenny's one have come to be my preferred solution joaquin ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@r

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - step negating another expecting step

ok, let's say: Then /should see "(.+)"/ do |text| # a binary step, easily negable end Then /I deny some steps/ do # really not so readable Not Then "should see \"your are not log in\"" Then "some other step that holds" # another way of saying it bad But Not Then "should receive inf

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - step negating another expecting step

> > Frankly, I don't think I'll ever implement a cute feature in Cucumber that >> allows you to have out of the box negation. It would be ugly no matter how >> it's done, and it would only save you a line or 2 of code. >> > > fwiw, +1 on that. refactor to a descriptive method and get used to > ref

[rspec-users] loading custom matchers into cucumber

hi there, In a step I need to assert (don't know hoe to translate this into "should" terms) state before keep going, example: Given "I have signed up as tom who is an admin" do |user, role| do # call some steps to create user tom end ___ rspec-users

Re: [rspec-users] loading custom matchers into cucumber

> > hi there, > In a step I need to assert (don't know hoe to translate this into "should" > terms) state before keep going, example: > > Given "I have signed up as tom who is an admin" do |user, role| do > # call some steps to create user tom > > end > oops, sorry that was gone unfinished! G

Re: [rspec-users] loading custom matchers into cucumber

hey ben, thanks, your solution works :-) luckily(!) a typo make get me to some prettier way (doing what webrat does), first namescoping the matchers: module MyCustom do module Matchers do Spec::Matchers.define :have_rol do |role| match do |user| user.roles.collect{ |r| r.na

Re: [rspec-users] loading custom matchers into cucumber

> > Spec::Runner.configure do |config| > # rspec should support :type => [:controller, :helper, :view] - but until > it does ... > config.include(Webrat::Matchers, :type => :controller) > config.include(Webrat::Matchers, :type => :helper) > config.include(Webrat::Matchers, :type => :view) >

Re: [rspec-users] metaprogrammatically generating spec examples

hey scott, thanks for your answer, but I still don't seem to get the 'contextual' part of the validations I am missing something? (it's maybe thay I should get some sleep) cheers, joaquin ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://ruby

[rspec-users] metaprogrammatically generating spec examples

hey there, I have a question that may be raised from some misunderstanding of my current problem. But the answer might well serve me for other things. The issue is I would like to be able to metaprogramatically (this may be a bad chosen word) generate spec examples to check a model is valid again

Re: [rspec-users] metaprogrammatically generating spec examples

hey guys, now I got it! the thing I was not seeing was the instance.should validate_... validation evaluation, I end up doing this: - create the object with desired state, - then iterating over all its attributes and -- validating required ones -- and not_validating not required ones. The key is

[rspec-users] mocking the shell command (Kernel module)

hello there, what is the best (or any) way of mocking the running of shell commands? e.g. code like the following: %{ ls } spec: it "should list the directory contents" shell = mock(Object) # %{} lives in Kernel module and its sugar for ` end ___ r

Re: [rspec-users] mocking the shell command (Kernel module)

%{} lives in Kernel module and its sugar for ` shell.should_receive(:`).with(:ls) end sorry about latter one, thanks in advance joaquin 2008/9/12 Joaquin Rivera Padron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hello there, > what is the best (or any) way of mocking the running of shell commands? &g

Re: [rspec-users] mocking the shell command (Kernel module)

thanks, I'll give that a try joaquin 2008/9/12 Matt Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 12 Sep 2008, at 14:12, Joaquin Rivera Padron wrote: > > what is the best (or any) way of mocking the running of shell commands? > > e.g. > code like the following: > > de

Re: [rspec-users] mocking the shell command (Kernel module)

hi, this did the trick: class Shell def self.sh command %{ command } end end then I am able to: it "should be mock alright" do end 2008/9/13 Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sep 12, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Matt Wynne wrote: > > On 12 Sep 20

Re: [rspec-users] mocking the shell command (Kernel module)

mails all of a sudden) thanks guys joaquin 2008/9/13 Joaquin Rivera Padron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hi, > this did the trick: > > class Shell > def self.sh command > %{ command } > end > end > > then I am able to: > > it "should be mo

Re: [rspec-users] mocking the shell command (Kernel module)

cool, thanks 2008/9/13 Matt Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 13 Sep 2008, at 13:42, Joaquin Rivera Padron wrote: > > hi, > this did the trick: > > class Shell > def self.sh command > %{ command } > end > end > > then I am a

[rspec-users] making autotest run other specs

hi there, I've been spec-ing classes in my lib/ directory, but until now only get spec to run using: script/spec spec/lib/ is there a way to make autotest load specs for this directory too? thanks in advance, joaquin ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-

Re: [rspec-users] making autotest run other specs

hey Mark you're right, all of a sudden I notice that specs in lib/spec do really get runned by autotest... I'll try to repeat the case in another project, I guess maybe only after autotest reruns *all* the specs (it does so from time to time) is that *new* directories inside spec/ get runned, or

Re: [rspec-users] making autotest run other specs

oopps, here: all of a sudden I notice that specs in* lib/spec* do really get runned by autotest... i meant: all of a sudden I notice that specs in *spec/lib* do really get runned by autotest... thx joaquin 2008/9/18 Joaquin Rivera Padron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hey Mark you're right

Re: [rspec-users] workflow: user => stories/features => spec => code => user

hi there, you might wanna be insterest in this talk on Stories DD by webrat maintainer at GoRuCo 2008 http://goruco2008.confreaks.com/01_helmkamp.html there he hightlights the workflow like this: 1. Write scenario (yellow color) 2. Write steps matchers (red color) 3. Write code (green color) 4. re