Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec

Table of Contents

• Preface to this edition
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
  • Why RSpec?
  • Who should read this book
  • My testing philosophy
  • How the book is organized
  • Downloading the sample code
  • Code conventions
  • Discussion and errata
  • About the sample application
• 2. Setting up RSpec
  • Gemfile
  • Test database
  • RSpec configuration
  • Generators
  • Questions
  • Exercises
• 3. Model specs
  • Anatomy of a model spec
  • Creating a model spec
  • The new RSpec syntax
  • Testing validations
  • Testing instance methods
  • Testing class methods and scopes
  • Testing for failures
  • More about matchers
  • DRYer specs with describe, context, before and after
  • Summary
  • Question
  • Exercises
• 4. Generating test data with factories
  • Factories versus fixtures
  • Adding factories to the application
  • Simplifying our syntax
  • Associations and inheritance in factories
  • Generating more realistic fake data
  • Advanced associations
  • How to abuse factories
  • Summary
  • Exercises
• 5. Basic controller specs
  • Why test controllers?
  • Why not test controllers?
  • Controller testing basics
  • Organization
  • Setting up test data
  • Testing GET requests
  • Testing POST requests
  • Testing PATCH requests
  • Testing DELETE requests
  • Testing non-CRUD methods
  • Testing nested routes
  • Testing non-HTML controller output
  • Summary
  • Exercises
• 6. Advanced controller specs
  • Getting ready
  • Testing the admin and user roles
  • Testing the guest role
  • Summary
  • Exercise
• 7. Controller spec cleanup
  • Shared examples
  • Creating helper macros
  • Using custom RSpec matchers
  • Summary
  • Exercises
• 8. Feature specs
  • Why feature specs?
  • What about Cucumber?
  • Additional dependencies
  • A basic feature spec
  • From requests to features
  • Adding feature specs
  • Debugging feature specs
  • A little refactoring
  • Including JavaScript interactions
  • Capybara drivers
  • Summary
  • Exercises
• 9. Speeding up specs
  • Optional terse syntax
  • Mocks and stubs
  • Automation with Guard and Spork
  • Tags
  • Other speedy solutions
  • Summary
  • Exercises
• 10. Testing the rest
  • Testing email delivery
  • Testing file uploads
  • Testing the time
  • Testing web services
  • Testing rake tasks
  • Summary
  • Exercises
• 11. Toward test-driven development
  • Defining a feature
  • From red to green
  • Cleaning up
  • Summary
  • Exercises
• 12. Parting advice
  • Practice testing the small things
  • Be aware of what you’re doing
  • Short spikes are OK
  • Write a little, test a little is also OK
  • Strive to write feature specs first
  • Make time for testing
  • Keep it simple
  • Don’t revert to old habits!
  • Use your tests to make your code better
  • Sell others on the benefits of automated testing
  • Keep practicing
  • Goodbye, for now
• More testing resources for Rails
  • RSpec
  • Rails testing
• About Everyday Rails
• About the author
• Colophon
• Change log
  • February 23, 2014
  • January 24, 2014
  • January 14, 2014
  • October 28, 2013
  • October 7, 2013
  • September 4, 2013
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  • August 1, 2013
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