dry_plugin_test

Author

Hendrik Volkmer - hvolkmer (at) imedo.de

Copyright

Copyright © 2008 imedo GmbH

Licence

MIT

Git

github.com/imedo/dry_plugin_test_helper

Bugs

No dedicated bug tracker yet - Email us or just send pull requests

Makes your plugin tests dry and isolates plugin tests from you real app.

Dependencies

Installation

The easiest way to install this gem is directly via the github gem repository:

$ sudo gem install imedo-dry_plugin_test_helper -s http://gems.github.com

Or

download the source code and build the gem yourself

$ git clone git://github.com/imedo/dry_plugin_test_helper.git
$ cd dry_plugin_test_helper
$ rake
$ sudo gem install pkg/dry_plugin_test_helper-0.0.4.gem

Usage

In your plugin test helper use these lines:

require 'rubygems'
require 'dry_plugin_test_helper'

PluginTestEnvironment.initialize_environment(File.dirname(__FILE__))

This sets up the test environment which means you have a stub rails app with you plugin loaded and also the following models:

  • Article: belongs_to :author, has_many :comments

  • Author: has_many :articles

  • Comment: belongs_to :articles, belongs_to :user

  • User: has_many :comments

The models will be added to a sqlite in memory database for fast testing.

You can add your own models using a migration in your test directory like this:

PluginTestEnvironment::Migration.setup do 

  create_table "animals", :force => true do |t|
    t.column "name", :string
    t.column "age",  :integer
  end

end

The database is automatically filled with the standard fixtures supplied by the gem. If you want to use your own fixtures (e.g. if you use additionals models) create them in the test/fixtures directory of your plugin. Note that the standard fixtures won’t get loaded if you use your own so you might have to add fixtures for the standard models if you need them.

If you don’t want the standard models (= database tables and fixtures) you can initialize the test environment like this:

PluginTestEnvironment.initialize_environment(File.dirname(__FILE__), :use_standard_migration => false)

TODO

  • support for RSpec and other testing frameworks (might already work - haven’t tried it)

  • Automatic Rails version discovery

  • Clean up / strip down rails env to bare minimum