Using RSpec and Cucumber with Rails 3 Engines

Testing RSpec
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Hi,

I recently upgraded to Rails 3 beta, a few weeks ago. One thing I would
really like to do is to develop components of my application, because
some
of them I’d really like to be able to reuse on other projects. I know
how to
make engines well enough, but it seems difficult or impossible to test
them
with RSpec and Cucumber. At least with Cucumber, it won’t run because
it’s
not a normal Rails application.

Is there a way to get around this, or what alternative would you
recommend?

Thanks,
Brandon

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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Brandon O.
[email protected] wrote:

Have a test app that uses your engine, and that has cucumber and rspec
tests.

Aslak

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On 29 Jun 2010, at 06:54, aslak hellesoy wrote:

Is there a way to get around this, or what alternative would you recommend?

Have a test app that uses your engine, and that has cucumber and rspec tests.

Aslak

A good example of an engine tested with Cucumber is:

There’s a rails app in fixtures_rails_root. Check out the neat trick in
the config/environment.rb[1] to load the engine from wherever you want.

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