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Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
I use RSpec in all my projects. It’s really hard to overemphasize how helpful it is and how much easier becomes your life if you have good specs coverage. But its outstanding flexibility enables many ways to make your specs awful: horribly slow, over-bloated, even non-readable sometimes. I do not want to teach you BDD and RSpec here, but instead I will give you some ideas how to improve your specs quality and increase efficiency of your BDD workflow.
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
Today we will talk about code organization in Ruby on Rails projects. As everybody knows, Ruby on Rails is a conventional framework, which means you should follow framework architects’ decisions (put your controllers inside app/controllers, move all your logic into models, etc.) But there are many open questions around those conventions. In this write-up I will try to summarize my personal experience and show how I usually solve these problems.
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
If you are creating Ruby on Rails application like a blog, you most probably want to generate URLs using post titles. It’s good practice, because search engines like keywords in URL, and it looks more human-readable. Just compare: http://example.com/posts/10 and http://example.com/posts/generating-permalinks-from-string (yeah, it’s long, but self-descriptive). Anyways, this is small post about converting a title to a permalink.
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
RSpec has great feature — mock objects (mocks). In a few words: mock object imitates behavior of the object, which used by the tested methods. And simple example immediately:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | describe UserHelper it 'should generate correct link to user profile in user_link' do @user = mock('User') @user.stub!(:id, 10) @user.stub!(:new_record?, false) @user.stub!(:preferred_name, 'Dmytro S.') @user.stub!(:full_name, 'Dmytro Shteflyuk') user_link(@user).should == link_to('Dmytro S.', user_url(:id => 10), :title => 'Dmytro Shteflyuk') end end |
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
Unfortunately, RSpec does not provide helpers for testing mailers like TestUnit. But it is easy to add them to your application, and here you could find code snippet for testing mailers.