Ashley said:
Message: 7
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:43:53 +0000
From: Ashley M. [email protected]
Subject: Re: [rspec-users] testing scripts
To: rspec-users [email protected]
Message-ID: [email protected]
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On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:45 pm, barsalou wrote:
What I’m doing now is wrapping the methods in a module, then including
the module at the top of the script.
Can you post some examples of the modules, classes and methods you have?
Every script I’ve written is basically just a little object-oriented
app that’s got a bit at the end to fire off some “main” class with the
command line args. Testing one is no different than testing, say, lib
code in Rails. Ideally you want each bit of functionality in a class
(and therefore file) of its own, so it can be tested in isolation.
But without seeing what you’ve got, it’s hard to guess where the
problem lies.
Ashley
Ashley,
I think what I’ve come to realize is that I need to refactor what I’ve
done. A quick example would be:
def exists?(device)
do device validation
end
device = Device.find(1)
if exists?(device) then # do my thing
end
I realize that exists? should really be part of Device and doing
testing on this script is helping me look at the objects differently
and I’m starting to refactor.
So I think my initial problem with testing my script is that it’s not
really OO in the first place.
You’ve confirmed for me what I had been thinking and I’ll work to that
end.
Thanks for the feedback.
Mike B.