Testing template components

Rails
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Hi,

I’m plowing through the template section of “Agile Rails”, specifically
the
stuff starting on P. 364. What is a good strategy for testing
components?

My initial thought is to mimic the Rails application “test” directory.
No
problem.

Next copy the setup method, and set it up like so -

class SidebarControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
def setup
@controller = Navigation::Sidebar.new
@request = ActionController::TestRequest.new
@response = ActionController::TestResponse.new
end

def test_setup
assert true
end
end

Nope, that throws an error that makes me think I am headed in the wrong
direction-

  1. Error:
    test_get_menu(SidebarControllerTest):
    NoMethodError: undefined method new' for Navigation::Sidebar:Dependencies::LoadingModule functional/sidebarTest.rb:9:insetup_without_fixtures’
    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:523:in
    setup' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:521:insetup’

Here is the controller if that is of interest (basically copied out of
the
book)

class Navigation::SidebarController < ActionController::Base
uses_component_template_root
Link = Struct.new(:name, :url)
def self.find(*ignored)
[Link.new(“people”,"/person"),
Link.new(“home”,"/")]
end

def menu
@links = self.class.find(:all)
render(:layout => false)
end
end

So, what is a good way to test components? The one requirment I see is
that
the tests should live inside of the components directory.

matt