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Hommer Smith
Hommer Smith

Reputation: 27852

Confused with Cucumber and seed data

I am trying to test the following:

-> As a User, I want to be able to create Posts. Each Post has content and also a Category (which is another Model), that I should be able to select from a dropdown.

I have the following step:

When /^I create a post with valid data$/ do
  visit new_post_path
  # Here it would go the fill for content
  # Here it would go the select of category
end

My question is: Where should I define the categories? In a seed file or..?

Edit: My doubts are, that, for example in my (form) view I have:

<div class="field">
    <%= f.label :category %><br />
    <%= f.select "category_id", options_from_collection_for_select(Category.all, "id", "name") %>
</div>

Once from my step definition I visit the "new" path, it will visit the view, but Category.all will return nothing. How do I fix that?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 391

Answers (3)

michaeltwofish
michaeltwofish

Reputation: 4086

The general answer is, use a library that implements the test data builder pattern to create any data you need in a Given step. Fabrication and Factory Girl, as mentioned in the other answers, are probably the most commonly used test data builders but there are lots of others.

Upvotes: 0

muttonlamb
muttonlamb

Reputation: 6501

Any background setup you want, i.e. things that your test relies on should be specified in the Given section.

Background:
  Given Categories exist

You can then specify in the steps what items you want to be available for the view. e.g. FactoryGirl.create(:category) or whatever

When the Given is specified with Background it will run before every scenario in the file, great for setting up dependencies.

Upvotes: 2

Lu&#237;s Ramalho
Lu&#237;s Ramalho

Reputation: 10208

You can seed the test database, or you can also use a gem like Fabrication with sequences, it would allow you to do generate unique values such as:

Fabricate.sequence(:category) { |i| "Category #{i}" }
# => "Category 0"
# => "Category 1"
# => "Category 2"

Upvotes: 0

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