Merge pull request #575 from JJ/develop

I found it kind of hard to create a test from the example provided

.gitignore

@@ -69,3 +69,6 @@ venv/
 
 # Cython
 *.c
+
+# Emacs backup
+*~

README.md

@@ -105,6 +105,16 @@ import happy_birthday
 hug.test.get(happy_birthday, 'happy_birthday', {'name': 'Timothy', 'age': 25}) # Returns a Response object
 ```
 
+You can use this `Response` object for test assertions (check
+out [`test_happy_birthday.py`](examples/test_happy_birthday.py) ):
+
+```python
+def tests_happy_birthday():
+    response = hug.test.get(happy_birthday, 'happy_birthday', {'name': 'Timothy', 'age': 25})
+    assert response.status == HTTP_200
+    assert response.data is not None
+``` 
+
 
 Running hug with other WSGI based servers
 ===================

examples/test_happy_birthday.py

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import hug
+import happy_birthday
+from falcon import HTTP_400, HTTP_404, HTTP_200
+
+def tests_happy_birthday():
+    response = hug.test.get(happy_birthday, 'happy_birthday', {'name': 'Timothy', 'age': 25})
+    assert response.status == HTTP_200
+    assert response.data is not None