Module: ActiveSupport::Testing::Parametrized

Included in:
ActiveSupport::TestCase
Defined in:
lib/active_support/testing/parametrized.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#param_test(description_template, parameters, &block) ⇒ Object

Generates parametrized tests, one for each set of parameters given. The description must be a format specification with the same number of substitutions as each parameter set has arguments (generally, just use one ‘%s’ substitution per parameter). The body of the test is the given block executed with each parameter set.

Examples

This code within an ActiveSupport::Testcase

param_test "string %s is ASCII only",
["foo", "bar", "baz"] do |string|
  assert string.ascii_only?
end

Generates 3 test methods, one for each parameter given, with names based on the description.

Another example with multiple parameters, generating 2 test methods:

param_test "%s is uppercase %s",
[["FOO", "foo"], ["BAR", "bar"]] do |expected, param|
  assert_equal expected, param.upcase
end



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# File 'lib/active_support/testing/parametrized.rb', line 30

def param_test(description_template, parameters, &block)
  param_count = format_sequence_count(description_template)

  if param_count != block.arity
    raise ArgumentError, "Number of arguments expected in description template " +
      "'#{description_template}', doesn't match number of argument to block (#{block.arity})"
  end

  parameters.each do |param_set|
    # Replacing nil values with 'nil' string because nil values will
    # get converted to an empty string within a test name.
    if param_set.kind_of? Array
      sanitized_param_set = param_set.map do |param|
        param.nil? ? 'nil' : param
      end
    else
      sanitized_param_set = param_set.nil? ? ['nil'] : [param_set]
    end

    if param_count != sanitized_param_set.size
      raise ArgumentError, "Parameter set #{sanitized_param_set} doesn't match number " +
        "of arguments expected by description template '#{description_template}'"
    end

    # Make sure the description generates a unique test method name.
    description = description_template % sanitized_param_set
    unique_description = description
    if instance_methods.include? generate_test_name(unique_description)
      count = 1
      description += " %s"
      unique_description = description % count
    end
    while instance_methods.include? generate_test_name(unique_description)
      count += 1
      unique_description = description % count
    end

    test unique_description do
      instance_exec param_set, &block
    end
  end
end