Hi,
I’ve got a Rails 2.0 app “AIMS_1” with one model, “Portfolio”. (I’m
following David C.’s 2007 tutorial at
http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/articles/2007/05/14/an-introduction-to-rspec-part-i).
Portfolio has two attributes: :symbol and :name.
With great help from this NG, I’ve got a neat set of validations
for :symbol.
I want to put together a script that will test the validations as part
of a suite of tests to confirm the app’s validity as I expand it. For
this purpose, I added a Q&A directory (actually, “__QA”) under AIMS_1
and populated it with the following portfolio_spec.rb file:
portfolio_spec.rb
K:_Projects\Ruby_Rails_Apps\AIMS_1__QA
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘spec’
require ‘spec/story’
require ‘K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
activerecord-2.0.2/lib/ActiveRecord’
require ‘…/app/models/portfolio’
describe Portfolio do
it “should report any invalid :stock entries” do
pf = Portfolio.new
end
end
When I run “spec portfolio_spec.rb” in a Command window I get the
diagnostic:
ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished in ‘Portfolio should report any
invalid :stock entries’.
I expected some error because I’m creating a Portfolio instance
outside the AIMS_1 framework generated by Rails. I have no idea how
to address this issue.
I’m running ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.0.2 and SciTE 1.74 over WinXP/SP2.
Any ideas?
Thanks in Advance,
Richard
RichardOnRails wrote:
When I run spec portfolio_spec.rb in a Command window I get the
diagnostic:
ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished in ‘Portfolio should report any
invalid :stock entries’.
I expected some error because I’m creating a Portfolio instance
outside the AIMS_1 framework generated by Rails. I have no idea how
to address this issue.
I’m running ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.0.2 and SciTE 1.74 over WinXP/SP2.
Any ideas?
Thanks in Advance,
Richard
Are you using the Rspec-Rails plugin?
Cos that should absorb a lot of this capacity for error.
(looks like you just want to require “…/…/config/environment” or
something to fix it, so you load rails, rather than just active_record)
but…
install it as a plugin
(maybe install rspec as a plugin in the same way else it seems to choke
if your rspec and rspec-rails versions are different)
then run “ruby script/generate rspec”
(don’t ask me why this isnt a rake task “spec:setup”… but it isn’t)
and you should have a basic spec_helper in place.
then try creating a new model
“ruby script/generate rspec_model Furbie name:string age:integer”
and it should get you a new spec in spec/models/furbie_spec.rb
which should work,
and then make your existing code work the same way…
see what went wrong the first time…
Regards
Matthew R.
(recommend me on WorkingWithRails
http://workingwithrails.com/person/12394-matthew-rudy-jacobs)
Hi Matthew,
Thank you very much for your excellent help.
First the good news: Your suggestion about requiring the configuration
was spot on! So I’m a happy camper and will indeed make the post you
requested at the end of your response.
While I plan to continue using the rspec gem for this current
project, I’m very interested in using the two plug-ins you
recommended on future projects. However, I wasn’t able to get rspec
plug-in to install. Below are the steps I took to:
- Get the rspec-rails plug-in installed
- When that failed, try a different plug-in to show plug-in
installation is working, generally.
I hope you can decipher my current error. Your unraveling my last
error was neat!
Best wishes,
Richard
[snip]\AIMS_1>gem uninstall rspec
[OK]
[snip]\AIMS_1>ruby script/plugin discover
[OK, but showed no dchelimsky]
[snip]\AIMS_1>ruby script/plugin source dchelimsky (David Chelimsky) · GitHub
[OK]
[snip]\AIMS_1>ruby script/plugin install rspec-rails
Plugin not found: [“rspec-rails”]
[snip]\AIMS_1>ruby script/plugin sources
http://dev.rubyonrails.com/svn/rails/plugins/
http://svn.6brand.com/projects/plugins/
[snip]\ AIMS_1>ruby script/plugin install simple_pages
- ./CHANGELOG
- ./README
- ./Rakefile
- ./app/controllers/simple_pages_controller.rb
- ./app/helpers/simple_pages_helper.rb
- ./app/models/simple_page.rb
[snip]
On Jun 29, 7:57 pm, Matthew R. Jacobs <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:32 AM, RichardOnRails
[email protected] wrote:
project, I’m very interested in using the two plug-ins you
recommended on future projects. However, I wasn’t able to get rspec
plug-in to install.
Check out Home · dchelimsky/rspec-rails Wiki · GitHub.
Cheers,
David
I have Rspec frozen in the plugins folder, so I know its the exact same
version as the Rspec-Rails I’m using.
Thought you might be able to freeze it by doing a “script/plugin
install”,
but clearly not.
But if its working for you, then don’t worry.
Enjoy some spec-ing.
Matthew R.
RichardOnRails wrote:
Hi Matthew,
Thank you very much for your excellent help.
First the good news: Your suggestion about requiring the configuration
was spot on! So I�m a happy camper and will indeed make the post you
requested at the end of your response.
Hi David,
Thanks for that source. I’ll try your plug-ins after the Fourth.
Best wishes,
Richard