# \[ANN\] ARID 0.4 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arid-0-4-released/117632>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 18, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arid-0-4-released/117632 "2007-10-18T20:07:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonlog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jonlog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonlog)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arid-0-4-released/117632/1 "2007-10-18T20:07:30Z")

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I am happy to announce the release of ARID 0.4.

ARID stands for Active Resource Integration DSL. It provides a means  
for easily writing Integration tests for conventional RESTful Rails  
applications.

For instance, this test…

new\_session\_as(‘bob’,‘bobs\_password’) do |bob|  
bob.edits\_article(1,:params =\> {:subject =\> ‘Hello World’, :body =\>  
‘Testing 123’})  
end

… will

```
* Login to the application as 'bob'
* GET edit_article_path(1)
* Check that the response includes a form will POST to 

```

article\_path(1)  
\* Check that the form contains a hidden field named ‘\_method’ with a  
value of ‘put’  
\* Check that the form contains appropriate fields for the user to  
input ‘article[subject]’ and ‘article[body]’  
\* Submit the form and assert a redirect  
\* Follow the redirect and assert a success

All methods take blocks to provide your own custom assertions, and  
options to modify behavior.

One _major_ assumption ARID makes is that your users login through a  
SessionsController that accepts :username and :password params. This  
can be easily changed by overriding new\_session\_as with your own method  
to get users logged in. (I’m actually doing this on one application.)

I’ve been using ARID on several production Rails apps, one of which is  
on Rails2.0 PR.

Complete documentation is available at [http://arid.rubyforge.org/](http://arid.rubyforge.org/)

Two major goals for future versions are…

```
* Convert it to a gem instead of a plugin. From what I've read, this
  doesn't look to difficult, but if anybody has any suggestions or
  pitfall warnings, I'm listening.
* Add appropriate tests to test ARID itself. I assume this will
  require some mocking which I've done very little of. Any advice
  would be greatly appreciated. Even better would be a patch that
  includes the first couple passing tests to get me moving in the
  right direction.

```

Of course, all feedback is welcome and encouraged.

Enjoy!