test driving ruby on rails
If you know Ruby & Rails but don't know how to test drive your rails applications this workshop is for you. At the end of this workshop you should be able to:
- Configure a Rails project to use Rspec for testing
- Use RSpec to independently specify models, views, controllers and helpers
- User special RSpec matchers for even more readable specs
- Decide when to use mocks and when not to
- Use tools like spork and parallel-tests to reduce build times
- Use factory_girl to make your specs concise
- Mock third party API calls without making the tests too brittle
Like all other workshops we conduct; this workshop is a collection of 20-30 minutes exercises, each concentrating on a particular topic, during which the attendee will test drive an application touching common aspects of the rails framework.
topics covered
While we assume that the attendee has a basic understanding of Rails and TDD, we will nevertheless cover the basics to make sure we are all on the same page. The introductory topics covered will be:
- Red, Green and Refactor
- Guidelines to write good specs
- Simplest implementation first
- Various ways to DRY the specs
Test driving various aspects of a Rails application:
- Models
- Controllers
- Routes
- Mailers
- Views
Discussions over general topics, such as:
- Rails inbuilt support for testing
- Various rails environments and how to use them
- Unit Testing vs Functional Testing vs Integration Testing
Edge cases for Rails application testing:
- Testing ActiveResource clients
- Testing Asynchronous code
- Testing time based logic
Prerequisite: The attendees must have basic understanding of Ruby on Rails as well as TDD.
