Re: [rspec-users] Fixture replacement vs mock model

2009-09-01 Thread Scott Taylor
Jeremy Hageman wrote: As someone relatively new to rspec, I am interested in hearing the wisdom of the group in the area of using a fixture replacement gem (such as machinist or factory girl) instead of mocking the model. To me it seems that using a fixture replacement, instead of a mock, would c

Re: [rspec-users] Fixture replacement vs mock model

2009-09-02 Thread Scott Taylor
Jeremy Hageman wrote: Scott thanks for the insight. On Sep 1, 9:16 pm, Scott Taylor wrote: Most mocks used in a rails project server neither of these purposes. Primarily they are used for speed - which so far has been the primary trade off with using a fixture replacement (such as

Re: [rspec-users] Embarassingly simple mocking/speccing question

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 17, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Hi there, Forgive the simple sounding question, but I'm struggling to understand how to spec helper methods in Rails work, and I'm having no joy, and after spending far, far too long staring at broken code, I'm hoping someone on the list ca

Re: [rspec-users] Embarassingly simple mocking/speccing question

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Taylor
Hub 5 Torrens Street London EC1V 1NQ email: ch...@stemcel.co.uk web: www.stemcel.co.uk twitter:chris_d_adams skype: chris.d.adams mob: 07974 368 229 tel: 0207 558 8971 2009/9/17 Scott Taylor On Sep 17, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Hi there, Forgive the simple sounding question, bu

Re: [rspec-users] stub! and stubs

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:14 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Sam Woodard wrote: I have an interesting setup: I am using rspec for mocking but I have mocha installed which give me access to any_instance, expects, etc. The problem that I am having is that I want to stub

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

2009-10-14 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Joaquin Rivera Padron wrote: 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

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

2009-10-14 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Nicolás Sanguinetti wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Scott Taylor wrote: On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Joaquin Rivera Padron wrote: hello there, how do you tipically spec private methods? The thing is Ï have something like this: def some_method

Re: [rspec-users] Error executing specs using Ruby 1.9.1p243 and RSpec 1.2.9

2009-11-23 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 23, 2009, at 9:35 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Bogdan Dumitru wrote: > The syntax for use_fakefs changed in version 0.2.1 and the fixtures > for rspec are generating errors, but it can be solved easily. > Have to change ... > describe "smth" do > extend

Re: [rspec-users] Error executing specs using Ruby 1.9.1p243 and RSpec 1.2.9

2009-11-23 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:12 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Scott Taylor wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2009, at 9:35 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Bogdan Dumitru wrote: >> The syntax for use_fakefs ch

Re: [rspec-users] Best approach to spec'ing this

2010-02-22 Thread Scott Taylor
On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Matt Riches wrote: > I am hoping that this is an easy question to answer! > > I have 2 models, related via an association model, such that models a and b > use has_many to refer to each other, and also the association. has_many :through with an extra table, or HABT

Re: [rspec-users] Of ActiveRecord, arel, and train wrecks

2010-02-22 Thread Scott Taylor
On Feb 22, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote: > I thought that it might be worth starting a discussion about the best > approaches to deal with spec'ing what's becoming more and more common > in apps using active record. > > It started with named scopes, now we have arel, and the old find ca

[rspec-users] Shared Helpers

2010-02-23 Thread Scott Taylor
Has there been any development on shared helpers / it_should_behave_like feature in rspec? I forget the reasons, but I remember a patch for something like this was rejected: it_should_behave_like "an_entry", :locals => { :entry => Entry.new } OR: before do @entry = Entry.new

Re: [rspec-users] Testing a rails controller *outside* of spec/controllers

2010-03-10 Thread Scott Taylor
On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Nicolás Sanguinetti wrote: > We have an app that has "extensions" that are built as rails engines. > Each engine needs some code in the controllers, which we solved as > "include this module, call a method". In order to test it, though, we > don't want to "copy" the t

Re: [rspec-users] Testing a rails controller *outside* of spec/controllers

2010-03-10 Thread Scott Taylor
On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Nicolás Sanguinetti wrote: > We have an app that has "extensions" that are built as rails engines. > Each engine needs some code in the controllers, which we solved as > "include this module, call a method". In order to test it, though, we > don't want to "copy" the t

Re: [rspec-users] Writing rails plugins

2010-04-16 Thread Scott Taylor
On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote: > Hi *, > I'm trying to write a plugin to integrate my SSO server into my rails app. > I'm finding the whole process quite difficult, I'm still blocked at > configuring rspec, and the lack of documentation is not helping. > I've put this insid

[rspec-users] Quickcheck testing framework

2010-05-16 Thread Scott Taylor
Hey all, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with an automated test-case generation tool like Quickcheck (for erlang/haskell). I'd be interested in hearing any impressions, war stories, or dev workflows regarding a tool like this. Talking off list to David C, he suggested that it might

Re: [rspec-users] Best practices for managing fixtures outside Rails?...

2010-05-16 Thread Scott Taylor
On May 14, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Stu wrote: > Hi, > > I have a non-Rails Ruby project that uses RSpec. It needs a shared > collection of fixture-like objects created, although they have nothing > to do with Rails, AR or database entries: > > w1 = Widget.new(10) > w2 = Widget.new(20) > w3 = Widget.

Re: [rspec-users] Quickcheck testing framework

2010-05-16 Thread Scott Taylor
On May 16, 2010, at 8:13 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > On May 16, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Scott Taylor wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with an automated test-case >> generation tool like Quickcheck (for erlang/haskell). I

Re: [rspec-users] Why pending only works inside it

2010-05-26 Thread Scott Taylor
On May 26, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Nadal wrote: > I wrote following code and it did not work. > > > describe User do > it { should validate_presence_of(:email) } > pending "should raise an error when email is blank and record is > saved with false option" > end > > > Then I put pending inside it li

[rspec-users] Custom File List for Rails 3 Spec Task

2010-11-06 Thread Scott Taylor
I have some javascript specs (using the jspec javascript framework) in my rails 3 project, living in the spec/javascript directory. How can I exclude the ruby files in the jspec project from being run when I run "rake spec"? RSpec::Core::RakeTask used to take a file list (which was usually gen

Re: [rspec-users] Custom File List for Rails 3 Spec Task

2010-11-07 Thread Scott Taylor
ote: > On Nov 6, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Scott Taylor wrote: > >> I have some javascript specs (using the jspec javascript framework) in my >> rails 3 project, living in the spec/javascript directory. How can I exclude >> the ruby files in the jspec project from being run wh

Re: [rspec-users] Is there a way to tell rspec not to fail the test while in debugger?

2011-02-03 Thread Scott Taylor
Probably manually rescuing your debugger call would work: begin debugger rescue Exception end Scott On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:18 AM, David Kahn wrote: > I am curious as with Test::Unit I could go into the debugger and stay all day > inside of a test and make all kinds of errors without a problem

Re: [rspec-users] Is there a way to tell rspec not to fail the test while in debugger?

2011-02-03 Thread Scott Taylor
On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:04 PM, David Kahn wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: > On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:28 AM, David Kahn wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Scott Taylor wrote: >> >> Probably manually rescuing your debug

Re: [rspec-users] stubbing gets undone?

2011-02-15 Thread Scott Taylor
Is #unstub being called at any point? Scott On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:54 AM, Fearless Fool wrote: > I'm looking at an example where a stub seems to work sometimes, and > sometimes appears to become "unstubbed". I haven't boiled it down to a > minimal example, but it goes something like this: > --

Re: [rspec-users] [ANN] Welcome Chad, Pat, Justin, and Myron!

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Taylor
Welcome everyone (and double welcome to Pat)! Thanks for your hard work, guys! Cheers, Scott Taylor smtlaissezfaire On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:46 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: > I'm very pleased to announce the reformation of a core RSpec development team: > > Chad Humphries, a.k.a.

Re: [rspec-users] Faking FS in specs

2011-03-13 Thread Scott Taylor
How are you requiring FakeFS? Scott On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote: > Hi *, for some reasons I'm not able to fake writing on the FS during specs > with carrierwave, someone managed to make it work ? > I'm currently trying to use FakeFS, but apparently I'm not even able to

Re: [rspec-users] Faking FS in specs

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Taylor
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M24 > > On Mar 13, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Nicholas Wieland wrote: > >> hi Scott, thanks for the answer. >> >> https://gist.github.com/868356 >> >> I'm not even calling it inside the specs. >>

Re: [rspec-users] Getting past my login system

2007-07-16 Thread Scott Taylor
- this question has been asked numerous times, in various forms. If none of those applies, let us know how it is different. Cheers, Scott Taylor On Jul 16, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Ryan Tucker wrote: > > > Thank you in advance for your help. I am relatively new to both Rails > an

Re: [rspec-users] Getting past my login system

2007-07-17 Thread Scott Taylor
d matter to deal with because of Rails complications. As for mocks - you might want to google Martin Fowlers article about how "Mocks aren't stubs". Every mock that receives an unexpected message (i.e. method call) will raise a MockExpectationError. This is a sign that y

Re: [rspec-users] Running RSpec from within my Ruby application

2008-09-27 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 27, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Daniel Lucraft wrote: Hi all (I tried to send this question to the list a few hours ago, but it seems to have not got through. If it did sorry for the duplication.) Does anyone have any tips or examples of how to run RSpec example groups programmatically from with

Re: [rspec-users] Lot's o' questions about Cucumbert

2008-09-28 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: Is there somewhere a real documentation about using Cucumber + Webrat in a Rails project? For instance it seems that Cucumber doesn't understand the word "Given" like Story Runner does. -- How about this? http://github.com/aslakhelleso

Re: [rspec-users] [ANN] RSpec-1.1.5 has been released

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 29, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:07 PM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: RSpec-1.1.5 has been released rspec_team.should_receive(:thank_you).at_least(:once) GmailMailer.post(email) class GmailMailer class << self def post(email)

[rspec-users] expect_render

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Taylor
ch should pass the spec, isn't: class AController < ApplicationController layout nil end What am I doing wrong? Best, Scott Taylor ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users

Re: [rspec-users] expect_render

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:54 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to write a spec asserting that no layout should be used in a controller. My spec currently looks like this: it "should render wi

Re: [rspec-users] expect_render

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:36 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:54 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to write

Re: [rspec-users] expect_render

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:02 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:36 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - stub! or mock?

2008-09-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 30, 2008, at 11:06 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Luke Melia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 15, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: I don't think you're really supposed to mock or stub when using cucumber. We need to stub time in some of our scenari

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - stub! or mock?

2008-09-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sep 30, 2008, at 11:06 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Luke Melia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 15, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: I don't th

Re: [rspec-users] What questions do you have about testing?

2008-10-05 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 5, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: Hey everyone, We're doing a panel on testing at the Voices That Matter conference (http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/ruby2008/ - you should go :). Obie set up a google moderator thing [1] to collect questions for the panel. I invite you all to

Re: [rspec-users] would I stub an existing class method out or use fixtures in this scenario?

2008-10-05 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 5, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Matt Wynne wrote: On 5 Oct 2008, at 12:26, Greg Hauptmann wrote: BankAccount.any_instance.stubs(:balance?).returns()). Do people normal use the "any_instance.stubs" approach to stub out existing classes already developed, as a means to minimize associated Is this

Re: [rspec-users] would I stub an existing class method out or use fixtures in this scenario?

2008-10-05 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 5, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Matt Wynne wrote: On 5 Oct 2008, at 21:56, Scott Taylor wrote: On Oct 5, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Matt Wynne wrote: On 5 Oct 2008, at 12:26, Greg Hauptmann wrote: BankAccount.any_instance.stubs(:balance?).returns()). Do people normal use the "any_instance.

Re: [rspec-users] Testing Generators

2008-10-07 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 7, 2008, at 6:02 AM, Pau Cor wrote: Hi, I have started writing my own generators, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for testing them. I know I could just run the generator in a dummy application; write my tests; and then copy the tests back into the generator. But th

Re: [rspec-users] expected redirect to "/admin/account", got redirect to "/admin/account" ...

2008-10-07 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 7, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: Getting the failure message: expected redirect to "/admin/account", got redirect to "/admin/ account" I'm on Rails 1.2.6 with edge rspec/rspec-rails. There's nothing funky inside that I can tell, but this is my first day with the app. I assume

Re: [rspec-users] Rspec: gem vs. plugin?

2008-10-08 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 8, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Wes Gamble wrote: All, I have some experience with Rspec from about a year ago. At that time, there was a gem and a plugin, and a Rspec on Rails plugin. Should I only be using the gem? If you're using a rails app, install the two plugins. If not, use the g

Re: [rspec-users] route_for()

2008-10-08 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 8, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Anita Anita wrote: Hello, Can I test in the spec the route taken by the redirect_to from the controller? The URL is not controller/action. I tried: route_for(:controller => "signup", :action => "confirmation").should == "/my/set/URL" but no it absolutely wants: .

Re: [rspec-users] When is spec_helper.rb actually executed?

2008-10-08 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 8, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Wes Gamble wrote: I'm trying to debug what I suspect is a case where spec_helper.rb is not being executed. I put a puts statement inside the Spec::Runner.configure do |config| block, and I can't ever see the printout. When does spec_helper.rb get run during rspec

Re: [rspec-users] When is spec_helper.rb actually executed?

2008-10-08 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 8, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Wes Gamble wrote: OK, got it. I have a follow-up question though. If a given spec DID NOT require spec_helper.rb, doesn't that imply that the spec would be run against the Rails "development" environment. Basically, the normal operation is that your spec requires

[rspec-users] Rspec @ UC Berkley

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Taylor
I find it sort of interesting that they are using RSpec in one of the courses @ UC Berkley: http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Cs198 Scott ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users

Re: [rspec-users] rspec - undefined method `describe' for main:Object

2008-10-10 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:56 AM, Mano ah wrote: When i run a spec file i am getting the following error D:\Diwakar\spec_diwa\spec\controllers>spec sandbox_controller_spec.rb c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-0.5.15/lib/spec/api/sugar.rb: 17:in `method_ missing': undefined method `describe

Re: [rspec-users] rspec - undefined method `describe' for main:Object

2008-10-10 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Mano ah wrote: How to solve the below error 1) NoMethodError in 'LoginController index should get successfully' You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.status ./login_controller_spec.rb:9: 2) NoMethodError in 'Logi

Re: [rspec-users] rspec - undefined method `describe' for main:Object

2008-10-10 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Mano ah wrote: How to solve the below error 1) NoMethodError in 'LoginController index should get successfully' You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.status ./login_controller_spec.rb:9: 2) NoMethodError in 'Logi

Re: [rspec-users] rspec - undefined method `describe' for main:Object

2008-10-10 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 11, 2008, at 12:42 AM, Mano ah wrote: rails 2.1.1 and rspec 1.1.8 never worked out for me So i downgraded rails to 1.2.3. while execiting ruby /script/generate rspec_controller MyController it ask rails version 2.1.1. i was getting the describe method error as mention earlier in usi

Re: [rspec-users] webrat within selector

2008-10-13 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Jonathan Linowes wrote: anyone know if/how webrat can scope a clicks_link within a selector? eg, if I have more than one "Foo" link on a page, I want to make sure I click the one within a specific div I'm pretty sure clicks link can also take an id. It's not t

Re: [rspec-users] How to spec accessing a constant

2008-10-15 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Nick Hoffman wrote: Hi guys. One of my methods uses a constant in another method, like this: class A def something "foo: #{B::BAR}" end end When writing the spec for A#something , how would you mock or stub #{B::BAR}, and how would you set an expe

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec vs Screw.Unit

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 16, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Ashley Moran wrote: Hi Hope this isn't OT. I'm currently contemplating using the Dojo[1] JavaScript framework, and I suspect it's powerful enough that using Cucumber features and Celerity alone will quickly leave me wanting lower-level unit specs for the JS.

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec vs Screw.Unit

2008-10-17 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Stephen Eley wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Joseph Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: "The dynamic nature of JavaScript makes mocking frameworks mostly unnecessary" A small but interesting difference from using Ruby, Rspec and its built-in mocking fra

Re: [rspec-users] Test HTML output from Rails helper

2008-10-18 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 18, 2008, at 4:40 AM, Thomas Watson Steen wrote: Hi I'm using RSpec in with Ruby on Rails. I've made a helper module method that generates some HTML and would like to create a rspec test to validate this HTML. I can of cause use regex to validate it as a string, but would much rat

Re: [rspec-users] Test HTML output from Rails helper

2008-10-18 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Oct 18, 2008, at 4:40 AM, Thomas Watson Steen wrote: Hi I'm using RSpec in with Ruby on Rails. I've made a helper module method that generates some HTML and would like to create

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec vs Screw.Unit

2008-10-18 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As for #3, I'm pretty sure that Ruby's method_missing allows one to raise an exception easily. Not sure what a Javascript mocking framework would do in this case. I'm not sure

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec vs Screw.Unit

2008-10-18 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 18, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Stephen Eley wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Javascript, it might look more or less like this: var old_method = obj[my_method]; my_obj[my_method] = my_return_value; That's an interesting syntax

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec vs Screw.Unit

2008-10-19 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As for #3, I'm pretty sure that Ruby's method_missing allows one to raise an exception ea

Re: [rspec-users] Where is current_user?

2008-10-19 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 20, 2008, at 1:00 AM, Harry Bishop wrote: Hi, I have a controller that uses the current_user attributes to determine if a motion is showable. I can see the motion track through from a fixture to the show action, but not the current_user. My rspec test is describe MotionsControl

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec vs Screw.Unit

2008-10-20 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: BTW, Pat - Have you still been working on integrating test spy into rspec? Nope, I found not_a_mock [1] and it works well. Also, relevant to the Screw.Unit and the spying threads, I've hacked together a Javascript mocking/stubbing framewor

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec vs Screw.Unit

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:46 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Ta

Re: [rspec-users] Accessing the model class from within an rspec-rails spec

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Cameron Booth wrote: Hi everybody, New to the list, so apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I didn't find it. I'm trying to build up a plugin of useful rspec macros for rails development, eg. things like: it_should_return_success it_should_redir

Re: [rspec-users] Including spec/rails/mocks into other classes

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 29, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Cameron Booth wrote: Hi all, So my potentially crazy but I think good idea right now is to take the factory_girl gem and adapt it to generate stubbed models instead of actual ActiveRecord objects that get saved to the DB. My main reasoning there is that I li

Re: [rspec-users] Mocks and Refactoring - doing it wrong?

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Sebastian W. wrote: Hello RSpec folks, I've only been introduced to the world of mock objects since Wednesday of last week, so go easy on me if I come off as ignorant. :P So, I'm a big fan of testing, especially since it has really helped to do refactoring in the p

Re: [rspec-users] Mocks and Refactoring - doing it wrong?

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Sebastian W. wrote: Hi Scott, Cool - I see what you're saying here. The only thing that I'm a bit confused still is that it seems like, at least if your system is starting to get larger, you'd really *want* your fast unit test to help you catch API changes like t

Re: [rspec-users] Mocks and Refactoring - doing it wrong?

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:14 AM, Scott Taylor wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Sebastian W. wrote: Hi Scott, Cool - I see what you're saying here. The only thing that I'm a bit confused still is that it seems like, at least if your system is starting to get larger, you'd rea

Re: [rspec-users] Mocks and Refactoring - doing it wrong?

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:17 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Sebastian W. wrote: Hi Scott, Cool - I see what you're saying here. The only thing that I'm a bit confused still is th

Re: [rspec-users] Mocks and Refactoring - doing it wrong?

2008-10-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:17 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Sebastian W. wrote: Hi Scott, Cool - I see what you're saying here. The only thing that I'm a bit confused still is th

Re: [rspec-users] Mocks and Refactoring - doing it wrong?

2008-10-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Actually, I take back my previous comment. Where would you stub a method on an object where the method *isn't* even loaded by further (or previous) stubbing? Any concrete examples come to

Re: [rspec-users] Mocks and Refactoring - doing it wrong?

2008-10-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Pat Maddox wrote: Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Actually, I take back my previous comment. Where would you stub a method on an object where the method *isn't* even loaded by further (or previous) stubbing? Any concrete examples come to

Re: [rspec-users] Help: Attempts to run specs quitting midstream

2008-10-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Evan Dorn wrote: I am having a very frustrating problem running specs on my current project. When I run tests en masse with "rake spec" or with autotest, it frequently quits without completing all the tests. It also sometimes runs the tests in multiple batches, g

Re: [rspec-users] Mocks and Refactoring - doing it wrong?

2008-10-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Oct 30, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Sebastian W. wrote: No idea why you couldn't pass a flag for regression testing: mock(Foo, :check_methods => true) Scott It seems to me this way, too - though I'm obviously biased. :) It's true that a lot of the dynamic stuff could be problematic - what if t

Re: [rspec-users] Unable to stub a class method in a before_filter

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: Are the docs on mock outdated? I sometimes see mock_model, and sometimes mock. Which one should be used? mock_model is for ActiveRecord objects. it's just a mock() call with a random id stub set, and a :new_record? => false Scott _

Re: [rspec-users] Installing rspec, cucumber, et al.

2008-11-11 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:44 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, James B. Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED] lyne.ca> wrote: On Tue, November 11, 2008 15:05, David Chelimsky wrote: You must have installed rspec during the short time we were using git-submodules. You'll want to r

Re: [rspec-users] undefined method `run?' for Test::Unit:Module

2008-11-15 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Bret Pettichord wrote: Hello. I just ran into an error I wanted to share. The error message is below. I tracked down the error to the following conditions: 1. I am using the new version of Watir (1.6.2) 2. This version of Watir uses the "user-choices" gem (from

Re: [rspec-users] How to kill a running spec

2008-11-16 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 16, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Nick Hoffman wrote: Hi guys. Occasionally, I'll want to kill a long spec process that's running. Usually I hit CTRL+c to kill a running process, but doing that for a running spec just causes "^C" to be printed to the terminal, and whichever spec example was run

Re: [rspec-users] Missing method implementation_backtrace

2008-11-20 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 20, 2008, at 2:35 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Ben Fyvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: We just upgraded from rspec version 1.1.4 to rspec version 1.1.11 and found that this no longer exists: # File lib/spec/example/example_methods.rb, line 84 def

Re: [rspec-users] How to spec a Rails helper method

2008-11-24 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 21, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Nick Hoffman wrote: I'm trying to write specs for a helper method that I'm creating, but my specs are failing to find the helper method # app/helpers/properties_helper.rb module PropertiesHelper def format_utilities(utilities) end end # spec/helpers/properties

Re: [rspec-users] Where does autospec come from?

2008-11-24 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Steven Rogers wrote: I'm working on a Rails project with someone else, and getting different results on specs. After a lot of poking around for differences, the only thing I can find is autospec in /opt/local/bin/ autospec vs. /usr/bin/autospec Seems like a b

Re: [rspec-users] class << self considered harmful... really?

2008-11-25 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 25, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Mark Wilden wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Matt Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 25 Nov 2008, at 17:54, Mark Wilden wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Matt Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Surely, as soon as they scroll off the screen, it's

Re: [rspec-users] class << self considered harmful... really?

2008-11-25 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 25, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Wes Gamble wrote: Scott Taylor wrote I'd be interested, however, in hearing about the benefits of opening the eigenclass to define class methods (apart from ease in searching, which may be best handled with ctags). Grouping and private methods. Potent

Re: [rspec-users] class << self considered harmful... really?

2008-11-25 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 25, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Wes Gamble wrote: Scott Taylor wrote I'd be interested, however, in hearing about the benefits of opening the eigenclass to define class methods (apart from ease in searching, which may be best handled with ctags). Grouping and private methods. Potent

[rspec-users] Performance Questions (Was: class << self considered harmful... really?)

2008-11-28 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 28, 2008, at 11:52 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Brian Takita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm wondering if this is a discussion about taste. I think you're right. I've been using t

Re: [rspec-users] class << self considered harmful... really?

2008-11-29 Thread Scott Taylor
On Nov 29, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Brian Takita wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Student <[EMAIL PROTECTED] spring.net> wrote: Performance is one of those nasty things that can go from being a non- issue to THE issue (next to correctness) in the blink of an eye. I am curious, however. H

Re: [rspec-users] Rails project as a template for other projects (off topic)

2008-12-04 Thread Scott Taylor
On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Andrew Premdas wrote: This is of topic but I have a feeling I might get some useful advice here - hope you don't mind I've created a rails project that I want to use as a basis for other rails project. I was wondering if anyone had any tips on workflow for doi

Re: [rspec-users] Warnings

2008-12-16 Thread Scott Taylor
On Dec 16, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Avdi Grimm wrote: So I was running my specs with -w the other day, and noticed a lot of warnings being produced. Some of these appear to be coming from RSpec internals, which is an issue in its own right but not the subject of this email. What I'm asking about rig

Re: [rspec-users] Best practices for developing a rails plugin (extending ActiveRecord) with rspec?

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Taylor
On Dec 17, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Ingo Weiss wrote: Hi all, I am developing a rails plugin/gem with rspec. The plugin extends ActiveRecord, so the specs basically needs a complete environment with database access to run. What is a good way to set this up in a way that can be bundled with the

Re: [rspec-users] Testing lib code

2008-12-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Dec 30, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Peter Jaros wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:50 PM, s.ross wrote: This question has, I'm sure, been asked and answered hundreds of times, but I was unable to turn up anything in Google. Here's the issue: I have some code in a Rails app in the lib/ directory

Re: [rspec-users] options:229 error

2009-01-06 Thread Scott Taylor
Ivor Paul wrote: Hi Guys I am really having incredible issues with this error i...@theluggage:~/workspace/talkies$ rake db:migrate (in /home/ivor/workspace/talkies) /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.11/lib/spec/runner/options.rb:229:in `files_to_load': File or directory not found: db:migra

Re: [rspec-users] options:229 error

2009-01-06 Thread Scott Taylor
Ivor Paul wrote: Hi Guys I am really having incredible issues with this error i...@theluggage:~/workspace/talkies$ rake db:migrate (in /home/ivor/workspace/talkies) /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.11/lib/spec/runner/options.rb:229:in `files_to_load': File or directory not found: db:migra

Re: [rspec-users] Cucumber - Performance

2009-01-07 Thread Scott Taylor
Matt Wynne wrote: On 7 Jan 2009, at 11:46, aslak hellesoy wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Colin Jack wrote: Hi, Small question on performance. I've just run the CS example provided with Cucumber and it took about 45-50 seconds before the first output appeared in the console, bu

Re: [rspec-users] IRB-like utility for Cucumber?

2009-01-14 Thread Scott Taylor
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Sebastian W. wrote: Hello RSpec forum, So...I realize this is a bit of a crazy question, but I wanted to throw it out there to see what answers came back: is there any way to start an "interactive Cucumber" session similar to irb? For example: bash> crb Give

Re: [rspec-users] spec_server and re-loads of files

2009-01-14 Thread Scott Taylor
On Jan 14, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Matt Wynne wrote: I got spec_server working today, and was literally ecstatic about the speed of response from running a spec. Yelps and all-sorts, very un-British, I can tell you ;) However I'm starting to notice that it doesn't seem to be picking up changes

Re: [rspec-users] IRB-like utility for Cucumber?

2009-01-14 Thread Scott Taylor
On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Sebastian W. wrote: Aslak Hellesøy wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Sebastian W. wrote: The :line suffix tells cuke to run only the scenario on that particular line. http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/running-features cucumber --help Asla

Re: [rspec-users] spec_server and re-loads of files

2009-01-14 Thread Scott Taylor
On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Matt Wynne wrote: On 14 Jan 2009, at 20:17, Mark Wilden wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Matt Wynne wrote: I got spec_server working today, and was literally ecstatic about the speed of response from running a spec. Yelps and all-sorts, very un-Brit

Re: [rspec-users] OT: Who To Ask About Screw.Unit?

2009-01-15 Thread Scott Taylor
s.ross wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Mike Gaffney wrote: s.ross's email about Screw.Unit brought prompted me to ask this question: 1) What do you use for Javascript Unit testing? I've tried jsspec and Screw.Unit and so far I'm thinking Screw.Unit is better suited to what I'm doing. I

Re: [rspec-users] App can't start on production server due to RSpec missing

2009-01-16 Thread Scott Taylor
On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: Hi, I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app on my production server: You have rspec rake tasks installed in /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake, but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vend

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