Bbq::Rails

Quick start

Add following to your Gemfile:

gem 'bbq-rails', require: 'bbq/rails'

You may also run rails generate bbq:install to have a basic configuration generated.

Features

Test integration

Your Rails application hooks up to Bbq::Core.app in tests automatically. Thus Bbq::Core::TestUser and Bbq::Core::TestClient can run against it.

Generators

Generators help you kickstart Bbq test environment.

At the beginning of your journey with Bbq you can use rails generate bbq:install. It'll create directory for acceptance test files and give you basic TestUser class for customization.

There's also rails generate bbq:test which creates new test files for you which have Bbq goodies baked in (DSL and test actor session pool handling).

Rake integration

Provided you've created spec/acceptance or test/acceptance directory, there we'll be following tasks for running acceptance tests available: bundle exec rake spec:acceptance or bundle exec rake test:acceptance respectively.

Routes

When you require 'bbq/rails/routes' you can then include Bbq::Rails::Routes in TestActor to have access to Rails url helpers. While convenient it's not recommended in general. Testing routes is part of acceptance test. Use links and buttons in order to get to other pages in your app.

require 'bbq/rails/routes'

class TestUser < Bbq::TestUser
  include Bbq::Rails::Routes
end

Development

We develop and test against multiple Rails versions. When working with legacy software a test toolkit should be the last to require special attention.

for gemfile in `ls Gemfile* | grep -v lock`; do
  BUNDLE_GEMFILE=$gemfile bundle install
  BUNDLE_GEMFILE=$gemfile bundle exec rake test
done