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Reputation: 3342

Is there a new way to unit test Rails projects?

I am following the tutorials at http://www.railstutorial.org/ and everything development wise is going well so far. I run into a problem, however, when I get the starting to work on the unit tests.

For example, one of the tests is the following:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Static pages" do
  describe "Home page" do
    it "should have the content 'Sample App'" do
      visit '/static_pages/home'
      expect(page).to have_content('Sample App')
    end
.
.
.
  end
end

In order to get the test to work, I have to change it to require 'test_helper' but then when I try to bundle exec rake test it gives me errors about no such describe method.

One test that I am able to get to run successfully is the following:

require 'test_helper'

class StaticPagesTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
  def test_connection    
    get "/about"
    assert_response :success, "missing about page"
    assert_select 'title', "About Us"
  end
end

I am just wondering if there was some change in the way the unit testing is parsed, because it seems that the syntax is quite different. Is there something I need to do differently to get the "describe" method to work, or is there just a new way of accomplishing the same task?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

Uri Agassi
Uri Agassi

Reputation: 37419

The first code block uses the rspec framework, while the second one uses Test::Unit framework.

Both are legitimate unit-testing frameworks, each with its own strengths, and each with its own syntax...

Both have been around for quite awhile now, so, to answer your question - no, nothing has changed...

Upvotes: 1

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