Stale Fish

This gem provides a method for keeping your fixtures in sync with their sources. This will prevent the scenario where your build is broken in production, but CI has a green build to do outdated fixture data.

How To

Simply drop in a YAML file in your application (for rails, RAILS_ROOT/config/stale_fish.yml is preferred) and issue the following commands.

A sample YAML file:

  ---
  stale:
    yahoo:
      filepath: ./tmp/yahoo.html
      source: http://www.yahoo.com
      updated:
      frequency: 1.day
    google:
      filepath: git_commit.json
      source: http://api.github.com/post_commit/
      updated:
      frequency: 2.weeks

Specify one block for every fixture you would like to update. The frequency field takes any relative date included in the ActiveSupport library.

RSpec

For a single test:

  describe UsersController do
    before do
      StaleFish.load_config = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/stale_fish.yml"
      StaleFish.update_stale
    end
    ....
  end

For all tests:

  Spec::Runner.configure do |config|
    ...
    before do
      StaleFish.load_config = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/stale_fish.yml"
      StaleFish.update_stale
    end
    ....
  end

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 Justin Smestad. See LICENSE for details.