# Error when testing extensions **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [May 5, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429 "2007-05-05T21:30:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/1 "2007-05-05T21:30:24Z")
Hi everyone, I’m trying to develop some extensions and whenever I try to run a test I get: uninitialized constant ActionController::Assertions::ResponseAssertions (NameError) I’m running radiant 0.6 (frozen from the gem). This happens for everything: unit tests, functional tests, tests run through rake, tests run directly – you name it. Any ideas? Thanks, Andrew ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/2 "2007-05-06T00:03:37Z")
Are these new extensions or ones that you started before the official release? Sean ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/3 "2007-05-06T00:50:42Z")
Hi Sean and Andrew, I have the same problem. I have created an extension on mental and pre 0.6 release. I try to fix it but can not find the problem. This is only happen for me when I run the test on instance mode. I have not try to run this on svn installation. I thought my gem installation might be the problem, I tried to uninstall and re-install but I get the same error. Leon Yeh New Avenue Systems Inc. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/4 "2007-05-06T01:20:44Z")
On 5/5/07, Andrew O’Brien [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > uninitialized constant > ActionController::Assertions::ResponseAssertions (NameError) Radiant - by having its own initializer - somehow messes with Dependencies and its ability to do autoloading ninja magic. I discovered this when I realized attachment\_fu cannot be used in Radiant without some manual requires, but I haven’t discovered what exactly breaks in Dependencies code. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/5 "2007-05-06T10:55:18Z")
Indeed, I am not sure its a bug or a feature, but extensions can only be tested in application mode. Regards, Erik. Andrew O’Brien wrote: > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Andrew > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) – Erik van Oosten > **[Day to day stuff](http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/)** > > Experiences from a hard core JVM programmer. Likes to keep things simple. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 9:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/6 "2007-05-06T09:01:07Z")
Hello, I tried to add a new routes into routes.rb. After reading the file, I found it to load routes.rb from radiant root. Is there any easy way to append or combine my routes to the radiant routes. Something similar to the extension routes handler. Thanks in advance, Leon Yeh ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/7 "2007-05-06T19:21:58Z")
Erik van Oosten wrote: > Indeed, I am not sure its a bug or a feature, but extensions can only be > tested in application mode. Um, no. That was true for most of the mental branch’s life, but it is not true for the 0.6 series. You can run tests for extensions in instance or application mode. If the extension was created before 0.6 was released you may be forced to run the tests in application mode. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/8 "2007-05-06T18:39:54Z")
If you’re creating an extension, it’s easy to do in the ‘define\_routes’ block of the generated extensions class. All of the routes from extensions are loaded before the Radiant core routes. Sean ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/9 "2007-05-06T20:10:04Z")
I did have 0.6RC2 installed, but have upgraded the the stable version. The extensions (and the radiant instance) were all created after the upgrade. This may be an obvious question but what’s “instance mode” and “application mode”? By “application mode” do you mean that radiant is unpacked in the vendor directory? -Andrew ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/10 "2007-05-06T20:23:06Z")
Andrew O’Brien wrote: > I did have 0.6RC2 installed, but have upgraded the the stable version. The > extensions (and the radiant instance) were all created after the upgrade. Tests run for extensions on 0.6 not RC2. > This may be an obvious question but what’s “instance mode” and “application > mode”? By “application mode” do you mean that radiant is unpacked in the > vendor directory? Application mode is when you are running Radiant like a normal Rails app (you checked it out via SVN or extracted the Zip or Tar), instance mode is what you get by default when you create a Radiant “project” with the “radiant” command. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/11 "2007-05-06T22:41:20Z")
Hi Sean, The new routes is not specific to an extension, it is more specific to the instance of my radiant app. For example: I need to route: /specialoffer url to /offers/free\_bike page. In regular rails app, you can just add this into config/routes.rb. However for radiant, it basically load it from either vendor/radiant/config/routes.rb or from gem folder, depends on RADIANT\_ROOT. Is there any way to do this on config/routes.rb ? since it is only applied to only this radiant app and not to the extension ? I guess I can just write an extension that can redirect to specific pages, but it would be overkill for my app. Thanks! Leon Yeh ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/12 "2007-05-06T20:23:08Z")
Ah, that’s good news. I’d better upgrade to the 0.6 release then (I am still on RC2). I guess I can recreate my extension, and then copy in all the code. Regards, Erik. John W. Long wrote: > If the extension was created before 0.6 was released you may be forced > to run the tests in application mode. – Erik van Oosten > **[Day to day stuff](http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/)** > > Experiences from a hard core JVM programmer. Likes to keep things simple. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/13 "2007-05-07T15:28:10Z")
Actually, it sounds like you need URL rewriting, not routing. Routing is used to map URLs to controllers and actions. In the .htaccess or Apache config file, I would do something like this: RewriteRule ^/specialoffer(.\*)$ /offers/free\_bike$1 Sean ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Andrew\_OSBrien](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Andrew_OSBrien)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-when-testing-extensions/103429/14 "2007-05-07T18:14:33Z")
Thanks Sean! I did not think to do this using the htaccess or handle this in apache.