TDD-ing Capistrano tasks

Rails
1

Railsers:

The time has come for me to learn some Cap. Imagine my surprise when I
discover the Rails test/ folder contains no capistrano/ sub-folder.

How do y’all write tests showing what your cap tasks will do? Or is
Capistrano code fire-and-forget, unlike everything else in Rails?

(Note this is not the question “how to run tests before deploying?”
That’s easy, and more Googlable…)

–
Phlip
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand ← NOT a blog!!

2

Since Capistrano tasks are just like every other kind of Rake task, I
test them the same way I test any .rake file. Here’s a generic Rake
example:
---------BEGIN CODE FILE
test/tasks/deflector_dish_test.rb-------------------
require File.dirname(FILE) + ‘/…/test_helper’
load RAILS_ROOT + ‘/Rakefile’
#Ye Olde Rakefile
load RAILS_ROOT + ‘/lib/tasks/deflector_dish.rake’

class DeflectorDishTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
fixtures :leads, :tags, :taggings
include Rake

def test_dd_import_nslc_exists
assert get_task_names.include?(“deflector_dish:import_nslc_leads”)
end

#Setting an Enviroment variable. This would be

"rake deflector_dish:import_nslc_leads

INFILE="./test/fixtures/nslc_leads/edloan.csv" at the command line
def test_dd_import_nslc_leads
ENV[‘INFILE’] = File.expand_path(RAILS_ROOT +
“/test/fixtures/nslc_leads/edloan.csv”)

assert Task['deflector_dish:import_nslc_leads'].invoke

end
end

-------END CODE--------

Rob K.