bluff

https://github.com/islandr/bluff

DESCRIPTION:

A single source of lies for all your testing needs.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

TODO

CONTRIBUTING:

Pull requests are welcome! See the DEVELOPERS section at the bottom of this page for more information.

OVERVIEW:

My original intentions for bluff are focused on rails/activerecord but I'm open to other libraries if it doesn't pollute the API.

The goal is to minimize the amount of mocking/faking pollution in your test suits, and to do so via an API that feels natural to rails/activerecord users. I favor a slightly more wordy API for defining bluffs that offers the full power and flexibility of Ruby over a cute DSL that limits customization.

MODEL AND DATA BLUFFS

Bluff comes with a small set of predefined data bluffs (see lib/bluff/bluffs/data_bluffs.rb) but its easy to add your own.

The standard practice is to define your bluffs within spec/bluffs. If you are bluffing a model, name the file model_bluff.rb. If you need to bluff custom data, do so in data_bluffs.rb.

A bluff is a bluff, whether it's just a piece of data or a full blown model. All bluffs share the same namespace (the root namespace is the only namespace) so choose your bluff names accordingly.

# spec/bluffs/user_bluff.rb
Bluff.for(:user) do |attributes|
  attributes[:name] ||= Bluff.name
  attributes[:email] ||= Bluff.email(attributes[:name])

  # return your bluffed instance
  User.new(attributes)
end

# spec/bluffs/data_bluffs.rb
Bluff.for(:name) { Faker::Name.name } # Call via Bluff.name
Bluff.for(:company_name) { Faker::Company.name }

HELPERS

There is a very tiny DSL built into Bluff to help you out. Three methods are available: requires(), default(), and defaults().

requires(:attribute, :attribute, ...) takes a list of required attributes. If any of those attributes were not provided an ArgumentError will be thrown.

default(:attribute, :value) takes an attribute and a default value. If the attribute was not previously defined it will be assigned the given value. If you have multiple defaults to set, use the hash version instead defaults(=> :value, :attribute => value, ...)

Here's an example of how you might put these two little guys to work:

Bluff.for(:workspace) do |attributes|
  requires(:account)

  defaults({
    :name => Bluff.name
  })

  User.new(attributes).tap do |user|
    # sometimes it's easier to define the default values down here instead
    user.email ||= Bluff.email({:name => user.name})
  end
end

Feel free to use them or huck em to the curb and just work directly with the attributes hash.

CALLING YOUR BLUFFS

User.bluff  # returns an unsaved instance -- could also use Bluff.user
User.bluff! # the "bang bluff" -- returns a persisted/saved instance, could also use Bluff.user!
User.bluff({:name => 'Ryan'}) # supply overrides/defaults in the attributes hash

METHOD BLUFFS (MOCKS / STUBS)

** NOT IMPLEMENTED YET **

All objects and classes are given a bluff() method, which is used for bluffing both models and methods. If given a symbol, the bluff() method can be used to define method stubs as follows:

User.bluff(:find) { |id| :value }
User.bluff(:save) { true }

user = Bluff.mock
user.bluff(:name).as(:value)

The mocking abilities of bluff are no more than a thin wrapper around rspec-mocks. Calling Bluff.mock('account') is identical to calling double('account')

REQUIREMENTS:

rspec-mocks
faker

INSTALL:

gem install bluff
or simply add bluff to your Gemfile and run bundle install

group :test do
  gem 'bluff'
end

DEVELOPERS:

After checking out the source, run:

$ rake setup

This task will install any missing dependencies and run the tests/specs.

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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