Controller utility method: want to use in tests. Where should it go?

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Hi,

I’ve a simple method I call in my action methods. So far I’ve put it
in application.rb in the ActionController class.

However I can’t call it from my test code. Where should I be putting
it? I’ve tried adding this to application.rb :

module ActionController

def handy
return dostuff
end

end

but it didn’t work.

Is this possible?

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On 10 Feb 2009, at 00:01, itsastickup wrote:

def handy
return dostuff
end

end

but it didn’t work.

Is this possible?

adding a method to application.rb lets controllers call it because you
are adding a method to ApplicationController and your controllers
inherit from that.
In a test you are subclassing Test::Unit::TestCase (or more recently
ActiveSupport::TestCase or some other class if you are using a
different testing framework), so clearly you can’t call and
ApplicationController instance method. Easiest thing is probably to
put the methods in a module and include it in both places.

Fred

3

Ok thanks