FLOOR MANAGER - when your job is handling the girls

The floor manager manages a whole graph of objects and lets you create them in memory or the database for the duration of a test.

You need two posts that are linked up to the same author? [1] Easy:

FloorManager.define :first do
  one :author do  
    name 'John Smith'
  end

  any :post do
    title 'The posts title'
    author.set :author
  end
end

And in your tests:

before(:each) do
  FloorManager.reset

  floor = FloorManager.get(:floor)
  posts = [floor.create(:post), floor.create(:post)]
end

This gives you two posts to test against. Both posts will have the same author, right down to the database id.

Look here for more documentation: blog.absurd.li/2011/09/28/introducing_floor_manager.html

INSTALLATION

Either by installing from github.com/kschiess/floor_manager as a rails plugin or by using rubygems:

gem install floor_manager

Then just require it atop of your floor definitions as follows:

require 'floor_manager'
# Your floors go here...

COMPATIBILITY

Has been tested with Ruby 1.9.2/1.8.7 MRI and ActiveRecord/DataMapper.

STATUS

Useful in daily life.

AUTHOR

Kaspar Schiess (kaspar.schiess@absurd.li)

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