Views Testing

Rails
1

Hello Champs,

Can anyone tell me that from where should i start for testing views of
my application ?
Want to know every possible way.

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

2

Is there anyone who can help me with it …?

One more issue,
How can i check redirection of a page in integration testing… Scenario
is-
I have a search page “/home” where i have to fill values in my search
box fields and after i hit submit it’ll post to the “/home/search” page
with the results coming out respective to the search texts.
Hope you people got me right.

Currently i am doing this,
post “/home/search” post_variable_names
Also tried: post_via_redirect “/home/search” post_variable_names

But both of them are not working… :’(

Hemant B. wrote:

Hello Champs,

Can anyone tell me that from where should i start for testing views of
my application ?
Want to know every possible way.

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

3

Hemant B. wrote:

Hello Champs,

Can anyone tell me that from where should i start for testing views of
my application ?

Well, you can use RSpec (preferably with rspec_hpricot_matchers) to test
the generated HTML, or you can do what I’ve been doing lately: not
writing much in the way of view specs, and instead letting my Cucumber
features exercise the views.

Want to know every possible way.

And you think you’re going to find out every possible way from list
postings? Come on!

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

Best,
–Â
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

4

You also can try Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org/), webrat (http://
agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/webrat), or watir (http://watir.com/)
if you want simulate browser behavior and/or test javascript.

5

Ok fine …

Can you tell me the second query as well… ?

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

Hemant B. wrote:

And you think you’re going to find out every possible way from list
postings? Come on!

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

Best,
–Â
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

6

2010/1/19 Hemant B. [email protected]:

Hello Champs,

Can anyone tell me that from where should i start for testing views of
my application ?

I would recommend starting by working through the Rails Guide on
testing at http://guides.rubyonrails.org which includes testing views.
This shows how to use the basic testing facilities provided by rails.
Many (including myself) believe that additional tools mentioned by
others in the thread, such as rspec, are significant improvements on
the built in testing tools but I think it is useful to understand the
basics as described in the tutorial before going on to better things.

Colin

7

Hi Guyz,

Thanks a lot for your support … Resolved it … But now i have got
another issue regarding ferret engine. Posting it in new thread.

Colin L. wrote:

2010/1/19 Hemant B. [email protected]:

Hello Champs,