Set up testing Rails db stuff (shamelessly stolen from Object Daddy) …

…and started on spec.

lib/autochronic.rb

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+require 'chronic'

spec/autochronic_spec.rb

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 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec_helper'
 require 'autochronic'
+require 'activerecord'
+
+setup_rails_database
+
+class SpaceCowboy < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
+describe SpaceCowboy do
+  before :each do
+    @toker = SpaceCowboy.new
+  end
+
+  describe "'some_date' field" do
+    it 'should accept a date object' do
+      date = Date.civil(2008, 2, 7)
+      date_input = date
+      @toker.some_date = date_input
+      @toker.some_date.should == date
+    end
+
+    it 'should accept a date string'
+    it 'should accept a natural language date string'
+    it 'should be nil on unusable input'
+  end
+end

spec/resources/config/database.yml

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+sqlite3:
+  :adapter: sqlite3
+  :dbfile: vendor/plugins/autochronic/spec/tmp/autochronic.db

spec/resources/schema.rb

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+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 0) do
+  create_table :space_cowboys, :force => true do |t|
+    t.date :some_date
+  end
+end

spec/spec_helper.rb

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 Spec::Runner.configure do |config|
   config.mock_with :mocha
 end
+
+def setup_rails_database
+  dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
+
+  ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'test'
+  require "#{dir}/../../../../config/environment"
+
+  db = YAML.load(IO.read("#{dir}/resources/config/database.yml"))
+  ActiveRecord::Base.configurations = {'test' => db[ENV['DB'] || 'sqlite3']}
+  ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(ActiveRecord::Base.configurations['test'])
+  ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = false
+  load "#{dir}/resources/schema.rb"
+
+  require "#{dir}/../init.rb"
+end