Hey everyone! A few days ago, I tried my hand at creating a gem. I've been putting it off for a long time because of the lack of documentation (or the lack of my Googling skills). When I search how to create gems with RSpec, I get pages that talk about gem templates with the rspec option, as if that would solve it all.
If there are no tutorials, maybe I could ask for your help in setting it up for a gem: Backgrounder I'm asking because it's a bit frustrating doing things by trial and error. A lot of the problems I've come across were that the files that rspec-rails loads for me aren't automatically available in the gem, so I have to manually include it. It became a problem when I had to test an ActiveRecord model, and worse when I had to test a controller. Currently, I'm stuck at the point where "get", "put", "post", "delete" aren't available in the spec. I asked about it in StackOverflow and got the answer<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2543885/why-dont-rspecs-methods-get-post-put-delete-work-in-a-controller-sp>, but it doesn't explain what I have to do to basically replicate those methods. What did I do? As part of my trial and error process, I started including what rspec-rails includes http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails/blob/master/lib/spec/rails.rb, and the REST actions don't seem to trigger an undefined error anymore, but now there's another "uninitialized constant Rails". So.. before I go further, maybe I'm approaching this wrong since I'm having such a difficult time. What's the best way to go about this? Is there a way to maybe include Rails and everything it has, for testing purposes? I know that you're supposed to make gems framework agnostic but for brevity's sake (and for my own sanity) I'm willing to make it very plugin-like for now. I've been reading and researching for 3 days you see :) Thanks, and I apologize for the novel! Ramon Tayag
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