http://wiki.merbivore.com/ 2010-08-21T18:35:56-07:00 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki 2009-01-21T14:34:28-07:00 2009-01-21T14:34:28-07:00 http://wiki.merbivore.com/testing/datamapper?rev=1232577268&do=diff

Specs not running because of your non-existent test database? Tired of setting your environment to test and running rake db:automigrate? Try adding the following to your spec/spec_helper.rb in Spec::Runner.config block: config.before(:all) do DataMapper.auto_migrate! end

2008-11-14T01:49:53-07:00 2008-11-14T01:49:53-07:00 http://wiki.merbivore.com/testing/request_specs?rev=1226656193&do=diff

See Yehuda Katz's presentation slides from MerbCamp. Mocking and stubbing are frowned upon by the core team when it comes to request testing, here is an example of how to test a controller and views going through the entire stack. A blog post by atmos explains the concepts and rationale behind this style of testing.

2009-01-25T09:22:27-07:00 2009-01-25T09:22:27-07:00 http://wiki.merbivore.com/testing/rspec?rev=1232904147&do=diff

Testing Merb Controllers with RSpec @ RailsTips An updated controller testing guide (by Atmos)

2008-11-12T13:36:48-07:00 2008-11-12T13:36:48-07:00 http://wiki.merbivore.com/testing/view_matchers?rev=1226525808&do=diff

By default, Merb generate a request spec per generated controller. You might have noticed the have_xpath matcher. You have more matchers available: have_content # checks that the document contains some specfic text have_selector # checks that a css selector is available (css3 supported) have_tag # checks that a tag is available have_xpath # checks that a xpath element is available