http://archive.patmaddox.com/blog/2009/1/15/how-i-test-controllers-2009-remix is my take on things. Due for an update though looks like :)
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Stefan Kanev wrote: > Hey guys. > > I switched completely to RSpec and Cucumber this spring and I am really happy > with. While I think I've gotten quite good with it, I'm not sure I understand > the value of spec'ing controllers (in Rails). I would appreciate if you can > give me some suggestions. Let me elaborate: > > The RSpec book suggests mocking models and not integrating vies controller > specs. Following that, I usually end up with something like this: > http://gist.github.com/257946 > > I see a few benefits: > It helps keeping the controllers simple. For example, while writing that spec > I discovered that Topic should have #update_topic_hits (as opposed to > inlining it there). That improved the design. > When mocking gets tricky, I treat this as a code smell and start refactoring. > Usually it works out well. > Specs are faster. Remembering how much time it took to run the functional > tests on an old project, I can really appreciate that. > Small changes in models (or views) don't result in broken controller specs. > It took some time, but I can see it now. > However, I still don't feel too confident about the way I'm doing it. Some of > my worries: > It feels like lots and lots of code. I'm normally at 2:1 test:code, but it > feels I'm overdoing it. *feels* is the key word here -- I might be worrying > too much. > I have a similar spec for each RESTful controller. Looks like duplication, > but I'm not sure what to do about it > Often the specs are passing when the code is broken (due to the mocks). While > Cucumber catches those errors for me, I'm not sure if they shouldn't be in > the specs in some way. > It's a lot of effort. Eventually ones gets used to it, but I can't decide > whether it pays of or not. > Can you validate (or invalidate) my reasoning? It will be very nice to hear a > comment from more experienced rspec users. Comments on the the spec I posted > would be appreciated too, of course. > > Thanks very much, > Stefan > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
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