On 12 Nov 2008, at 00:51, Jesse Clark wrote:
On Oct 26, 4:49 am, "David Chelimsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Oleksandr Rudyk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everybody,
1) Does anybody have full working example of how to test partial
templates?
2) What the correct place to testpartials: controller or view
spec? If
controller correct place,
should I use integrate_views?
There are basically three options (from most granular to most
coarse):
1. view examples rendering the partial directly
2. view examples rendering a template that includes the partial
3. controller examples with integrate_views
In practice, I don't think I ever go for #3, and the choice between
#1
and #2 is largely context-dependent. In the end you want to (or
rather, I want you to ;) ) be equally comfortable with all three
approaches, understand the pros and cons of each, and make a decision
on a case by case basis.
Where can I find more information about how various contexts affect
the choice between #1 and #2?
I have a partial that is shared by two view templates and I only want
to test the partial once. So I created a new spec file with a describe
block for the partial. The partial is passed some locals and I would
like to test in my examples that these local variables are displayed
as expected. How would I go about setting these in the example so they
are available to the partial when it renders?
What you can do is call the template from the example and set up a
stub for each of the locals. So if I have a partial like this:
<%= name %> makes cheese for <%= friend_name %>
Then in the example, you can do this:
describe "when there's a name and a friend name"
before(:each) do
template.stub!(:name).and_return("Mike")
template.stub!(:friend_name).and_return("Susan")
end
end
Make sense?
In order to keep your view specs from becoming too brittle, I would
strongly suggest that you 'stub out' the rendering of the shared
partial in the specs for the two view templates that use the partial.
I usually do this by making a special helper method for rendering the
partial:
<%= for relationship in relationships %>
<%= render_relationship(relationship) %>
<% end %>
This makes is easy to stub out the rendering in your main view
templates' specs:
before(:each) do
template.stub!(:render_relationship)
end
Of course you'll really want a Cucumber test that makes sure the whole
stack fits together (locals are passed through with the correct names)
but I'd suggest that's a much more flexible solution than tying your
view specs together.
HTH,
Matt
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