Lytol / test_helpers

==Introduction

  Ruby On Rails plugin to use helper modules in testing (Test::Unit). This
  is especially useful when you have factory methods or utility methods in your test code 
  that you'd like to be able to share between multiple test files (and you
  don't want to clutter your test_helper.rb).
  
  This plugin is just an extension of 
  http://faithfulcode.rubyforge.org/svn/plugins/trunk/test_helpers/ with modifications for 
  my own tastes and a generator for easy addition of test helpers.

  Author:    Brian Smith (bsmith@swig505.com)
  Date:      December 2007
  

==Overview

  The built in testing framework for Ruby On Rails (Test::Unit) does
  not use helper modules for testing. This plugin allows you to create 
  a directory ('test/helpers') and place helper modules in the directory.
  
  You can create a helper module with the following command (that will 
  create a file <tt>test/helpers/<name>_test_helper.rb</tt>).
  
    script/generate test_helper <name>
  
  Each helper module can be loaded with:
  
    test_helper :<name>
  
  Additionally, you could place the following within test_helper.rb to 
  automatically load all test helper modules:
  
    test_helpers :all
    
  NOTE: <tt>test_helper</tt> and <tt>test_helpers</tt> are aliases
  
==Example
  
  If you had a unit test file called "user_test.rb" in test/units, you 
  could create the file "test/helpers/user_test_helper.rb" with the following:
  
    ruby script/generate test_helper user
    
  The "test/helpers/user_test_helper.rb" file that is created will contain the
  following:
  
  <tt>
  module UserTestHelper
  
    
  
  end
  </tt>

  Then, within "test/unit/user_test.rb", you would place the following:
  
    test_helper :user