Module: Umlaut::TestHelp::TestWithCassette

Defined in:
lib/umlaut/test_help.rb

Overview

Keep it in a seperate module so people can include just that if they want Umlaut::TestHelp::TestWithCassette. If you’ve already included Umlaut::TestHelp into your

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#test_with_cassette(name, group = nil, vcr_options = {}, &block) ⇒ Object

Helper to create a Test::Unit style test that is wrapped in VCR.use_cassette for testing. If you supply a ‘group’ option, then the cassettes will be placed on the file system in a directory based on that group, and the VCR cassettes will also be tagged with that group name.

Extract this whole thing to a gem for sharing?

An alternative to this method is using rspec (but not in Umlaut, we don’t use rspec) OR using minitest-rails or minitest-spec-rails with minitest/spec style and the minitest-vcr gem. I’ve had mixed success with minitest/spec in rails. 

extend TestWithCassette
test_with_cassette("do something", :group) do
  assert_...
end



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# File 'lib/umlaut/test_help.rb', line 117

def test_with_cassette(name, group = nil, vcr_options ={}, &block)
  # cribbed from Rails and modified for VCR
  # https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/b451de0d6de4df6bc66b274cec73b919f823d5ae/activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/declarative.rb#L25

  test_name_safe = name.gsub(/\s+/,'_')

  test_method_name = "test_#{test_name_safe}".to_sym

  raise "#{test_method_name} is already defined in #{self}" if methods.include?(test_method_name)

  cassette_name = vcr_options.delete(:cassette)
  unless cassette_name
    # calculate default cassette name from test name
    cassette_name = test_name_safe
    # put in group subdir if group
    cassette_name = "#{group}/#{cassette_name}" if group
  end

  # default tag with groupname, can be over-ridden.
  vcr_options = {:tag => group}.merge(vcr_options) if group

  if block_given?
    define_method(test_method_name) do
      VCR.use_cassette(cassette_name , vcr_options) do
        instance_eval &block
      end
    end
  else
    define_method(test_method_name) do
      flunk "No implementation provided for #{name}"
    end
  end
end