[Ruby] testing advice

[Geoffrey Grosenbach]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:14:54AM -0800, ben wiseley wrote:
> Since it's a very database search specific plugin I was thinking the
> best way to do this would be to create a separate testing rails app.  Is
> this the wrong way to go about testing plugins? 

I wrote a plugin that generates files for testing database-powered plugins against a sqlite database. You can write unit tests and make fixtures just like you would with a normal Rails app (but it's done inside the plugin).

http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/plugin_test/

For an example in use, see 

http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/ar_fixtures/
http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/ar_fixtures/test/ar_fixtures_test.rb

Geoffrey Grosenbach
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