Joshua Muheim wrote: > Does RoR have the possibility to use fixtures for web testing? Or am I > completely on the wrong track, and CakePHP's doing everything the right > way?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "web testing." Here are the various levels of testing that Rails supports (Test::Unit): 1. Model (Unit tests) 2. Functional (Controller tests) 3. Integration (Controller + View tests) RSpec (http://rspec.info/) is also popular and breaks things down a little differently: 1. Model specs 2. Controller specs 3. View specs 4. Helper specs RSpec typically relies on a third party story runner for implementing, what Test::Unit calls "integration tests," called Cucumber (http://cukes.info/). There are other frameworks that are popular as well (e.g. Shoulda). FIXTURES ARE BAD!!! Most of the Rails developers I know have completely stopped using fixtures to generate test data. Fixtures are difficult to deal with and cause more problems than they are worth. Fortunately there are now a few really great fixture replacement frameworks. The ones I'm most familiar with are Factory Girl (http://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails) and Machinist (http://github.com/notahat/machinist). As far as using fixture data for what you are calling "web tests" I would actually advise against it in most cases. For most tests (or specs) above model/unit level it's best to use mocking. Using mocks instead of real model objects helps to isolate your tests from issues at the database level. There are a number of really good mocking frameworks to choose from. RSpec has it own built-in mocking framework, but can also use a number of third-party mocking frameworks as well. For more information on mocking see: http://rspec.info/documentation/mocks/ Here's an overview of a number of options for testing in Rails: http://upstre.am/tag/mocha/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
