[Ruby] Rails view testing questions

[Joe Van Dyk]

On 9/21/06, Tom Lianza <tlianza at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 19, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Using the view testing functionality of ZenTest (when's that going to
> > > be incorporated into Rails, btw?),
> >
> > Likely never.  I don't think anybody on the core team really tests.
>
>
> I've also heard from some people that the approach might be less "what can
> we add to rails core" and more "what can we take out of core and turn into a
> plugin".  (I think Dave Thomas said that on the RoR podcast at one point).
> So, I agree with Eric that it's unlikely.  I'm not sure I'm totally bought
> in on making everything a plugin, but there are pros and cons to each
> approach.

Seems like view testing should be promoted to the same level as model
testing and controller testing.  It's not a "domain-specific" thing.