If your controller spec never reaches your controller code: Make sure you are signed in. Make sure you are actually...
Plugins (and gems) are typically tested using a complete sample rails application that lives in the spec folder of the...
If a controller action responds to other formats than HTML (XML, PDF, Excel, JSON, ...), you can reach that code in...
You will need to upgrade to RSpec >= 2 and rspec-rails >= 2 for Rails 3. Here are some hints to...
Inside before :each blocks you can refer to variables that you introduce via let later on. They do not need...
RSpec's context (which is basically an alias for describe) takes over your whole application. No object may have its...
With its you can switch the subject of an example to a method value of the current subject: describe Array...
To only run a single describe/context block in a long spec, you can say spec spec/models/note_spec.rb:545 ... where the describe...
When a spec only runs when it is called directly, but not as part of the whole test suite, make...
By default, Cucumber uses mocha. This note shows to use RSpec stubs and mocks instead. Rspec 1 / Rails 2
This is an awesome gadget in your toolbox, even if your test coverage is great. gem install ruby-debug (Ruby...
This raises "Could not find first Keyword": describe Keyword do it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:text) } end Do this instead...
There will probably be better solutions as we become more experienced with using Bundler, and more command line tools become...
Update RubyGems and Passenger Bundler requires Rubygems >= 1.3.6. Run gem update --system if you have an older version.
There are three ways to define your own RSpec matchers, with increasing complexibility and options: 1) Use RSpec::Matchers.define
When you roll custom URLs with hacks like routing-filter, you can put a spec like this into spec/routing/routing_spec.rb:
Don't use should validate_format_of(...) because that matcher works in weird ways. Use the allow_value matcher instead...
Our awesome collection of rspec helpers (formerly known as "spec_candy.rb") is now available as a gem. It works, it is...
With defaults, RCov doesn't work the way you how you would like it to. To create a nice test...
rspec_spinner is a progress bar for RSpec which outputs failing examples as they happen (instead of all at the...
Install gem and plugin sudo gem install parallel script/plugin install git://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.git Adapt config/database.yml test: database: xxx_test<%= ENV...
Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]
What if my controller decides to take the Thing.create! and rescue route? What if my model has a special initializer...