Obligatory plug for https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/rspec-ruby-application-testing which touches on some of the themes you're asking about :)
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017, at 04:06 PM, Jon Rowe wrote: > Hi Jon > > A couple of tips, firstly you can stub out your external dependencies for an > end to end test, it just depends on the level of integration you want, it’s > equally fine to do what you propose. For injecting your endpoint (IP, > hostname or otherwise) you have a couple of ways of doing it, the simplest is > to use environment variables e.g. `ENV[‘API_ENDPOINT’]`, or you can build > yourself a config system like you mention. The reason why you don’t see big > projects using external configuration files is it is usually done at the app > level rather than in rspec.> > If you chose to go down the config file route, xml, yml or otherwise, you’d > be better off loading it in a spec_helper or other such support file, and > assigning it somewhere.> > Personally I would go with json fixture files for static json, or a generator > method if it needs to be dynamic.> > Cheers. > Jon > > Jon Rowe > --------------------------- > [email protected] > jonrowe.co.uk > > On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 01:52, Jon Gordon wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm quite new to RSpec, and I have used it mainly for unit-testing. Lately, >> a need for a small number of end-to-end tests became relevant. When writing >> test-cases, I'm trying to stub all dependencies, but because that's not an >> option when doing integration tests, I need some help to understand what's >> the proper way to do things. Here's couple of questions: >> >> 1. The test requires an IP for remote machine (which is not local and sadly >> can not be). Obviously, I shouldn't supply the IP inside the spec file. The >> simple way is reading an external YML file with the IP (that will get >> created automatically during the CI process with the right IP for example) >> and populate the IP directly from it. But, I was checking couple of big >> project that uses rspec, and I never seen an external configuration file, so >> I'm thinking perhaps there is a better way of doing it >> >> 2. If indeed YML file is the right answer, I'm not sure if reading from the >> YML file every spec file (that uses this service) is the right thing to do? >> Shouldn't I be using hooks instead for that? >> >> 3. The test-object is a REST service, and some of the requests require big >> json object. I have two options: >> a. I can create the json object in the spec file itself (which makes >> all information visible to you from the spec file itself, but clutters the >> spec) >> b. Creating an external default fixture (which is basically a json >> file), read from it during the spec, and re-write the values that are >> relevant for the specific tests. >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "rspec" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rspec/61ac9ade-1045-4211-80d3-441ef01ae7cb%40googlegroups.com[1]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.>> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "rspec" group.> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails > from it, send an email to [email protected].> To post to > this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rspec/3FF6FCF2018A482CBDC70C02BAFFB643%40jonrowe.co.uk[2].> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Links: 1. https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rspec/61ac9ade-1045-4211-80d3-441ef01ae7cb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer 2. https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rspec/3FF6FCF2018A482CBDC70C02BAFFB643%40jonrowe.co.uk?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rspec" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rspec/1500420234.409877.1045249368.71A25435%40webmail.messagingengine.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
