How do I generate specs for existing controllers?

Testing RSpec
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I want to generate boilerplate code for existing controller, models
and views. Is there a command or a gem that lets me do that?

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Unfortunately no that I know of, though it shouldn’t be very hard to
write a script for that which will rely on running corresponding
generators with -s, [--skip] options which makes the generator skip
already existing files.

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On Nov 20, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Volkan U. wrote:

I want to generate boilerplate code for existing controller, models
and views. Is there a command or a gem that lets me do that?

You can’t see them because rails hides them, but:

rails generate rspec:model
rails generate rspec:view
rails generate rspec:controller

Each of these generates only the spec.

HTH,
David

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rails hides them?

why?

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On Nov 25, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Jonathan L. wrote:

On Nov 25, 2010, at 9:20 AM, David C. wrote:

On Nov 20, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Volkan U. wrote:

I want to generate boilerplate code for existing controller, models
and views. Is there a command or a gem that lets me do that?

You can’t see them because rails hides them, but:

rails hides them?

why?

Rails 3 agnosticism. Intent is that when you register rspec as “the test
framework” that the Rails generators (“rails generate model”, etc)
seamlessly delegate the test-generation to rspec. It’s not really
designed with generating tests after the fact in mind.