rspec-rails-2 brings rspec-2 to rails-3 with lightweight extensions to both libraries.
gem install rspec-rails --pre
This installs the following gems:
- rspec
- rspec-core
- rspec-expectations
- rspec-mocks
- rspec-rails
Add this line to the Gemfile:
gem "rspec-rails", ">= 2.0.0.beta.8"
This will expose generators, including rspec:install. Now you can run:
script/rails g rspec:install
This adds the spec directory and some skeleton files, including the "rake spec" task.
Note that things are in flux, so some generators generate code that doesn't work all that well yet.
If you prefer to exploit bundler's support for pointing a gem at a github repo, be sure to do so for all five of the relevant rspec gems:
gem "rspec-rails", :git => "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git"
gem "rspec", :git => "git://github.com/rspec/rspec.git"
gem "rspec-core", :git => "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-core.git"
gem "rspec-expectations", :git => "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations.git"
gem "rspec-mocks", :git => "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks.git"
Keep in mind that each of these repos is under active development, which means that its very likely that you'll pull from these repos and they won't play nice together. If playing nice is important to you, stick to the published gems.
This is a complete rewrite of the rspec-rails extension designed to work with rails-3.x and rspec-2.x. It will not work with older versions of either rspec or rails. Many of the APIs from rspec-rails-1 have been carried forward, however, so upgrading an app from rspec-1/rails-2, while not pain-free, should not send you to the doctor with a migraine.
- each example runs in its own transaction
- configurable in RSpec.configure
- see generated spec/spec_helper.rb
- configurable in RSpec.configure
- model specs in spec/models
- controller specs in spec/controllers
- view specs in spec/views
- mailer specs in spec/mailers
- observer specs in spec/models
- request specs in spec/requests
- these wrap rails integration tests
- rails assertions
- assertion-wrapping matchers
- redirect_to
- render_template
- helper specs
- webrat matchers
- generators
- run "script/rails g" to see the list of available generators
See http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues
Request specs live in spec/requests, and mix in behavior from Rails' integration tests.
Controller specs live in spec/controllers, and mix in ActionController::TestCase::Behavior. See the documentation for ActionController::TestCase to see what facilities are available from Rails.
You can use RSpec expectations/matchers or Test::Unit assertions.
By default, controller specs do not render views (as of beta.9).
This supports specifying controllers without concern for whether
the views they render work correctly or even exist. If you prefer
to render the views (a la Rails' functional tests), you can use the
render_views
declaration in each example group:
describe SomeController do
render_views
...
render_views
replaces integrate_views
from rspec-rails-1.3
Use assigns(key)
to express expectations about instance variables that a controller
assigns to the view in the course of an action:
get :index
assigns(:widgets).should eq(expected_value)
Delegates to Rails' assert_template:
response.should render_template("new")
Delegates to assert_redirect
response.should redirect_to(widgets_path)
View specs live in spec/views, and mix in ActionView::TestCase::Behavior.
describe "events/show.html.erb" do
it "displays the event location" do
assign(:event, stub_model(Event,
:location => "Chicago"
)
render
rendered.should contain("Chicago")
end
end
Use this to assign values to instance variables in the view:
assign(:widget, stub_model(Widget))
render
The code above assigns stub_model(Widget)
to the @widget
variable in the view, and then
renders the view.
assign(key, value)
replaces assigns[key] = value
from rspec-rails-1.3
This represents the rendered view.
render
rendered.should =~ /Some text expected to appear on the page/
rendered
replaces response
from rspec-rails-1.3
Routing specs live in spec/routing.
describe "routing to profiles" do
it "routes /profile/:username to profile#show for username" do
{ :get => "/profiles/jsmith" }.should route_to(
:controller => "profiles",
:action => "show",
:username => "jsmith"
)
end
it "does not expose a list of profiles" do
{ :get => "/profiles" }.should_not be_routable
end
end
Delegates to Rails' assert_routing.
Passes if the path is recognized by Rails' routing. This is primarily intended
to be used with should_not
to specify routes that should not be routable.
Helper specs live in spec/helpers, and mix in ActionView::TestCase::Behavior.
describe EventsHelper do
describe "#link_to_event" do
it "displays the title, and formatted date" do
event = Event.new("Ruby Kaigi", Date.new(2010, 8, 27))
# helper is an instance of ActionView::Base configured with the
# EventsHelper and all of Rails' built-in helpers
helper.link_to_event.should =~ /Ruby Kaigi, 27 Aug, 2010/
end
end
end