One of the things I like most about TDD, and shoulda specifically, is that if a thought pops up of something I need to add I can add a deferred test and come back to it later. In shoulda you can do this with:
should_eventually "do something" #or just leave off the block should "do something"
This works great for models/controllers, but I also wanted a way to integrate a miscelanious todo list into the flow that would pop up in autotest or when running the whole test suite. To accomplish this I’ve been keeping a TodosTest in the integration tests directory:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
class TodosTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
context "TODO:" do
todos = [
'add the jquery rounded corners plugin',
'add the jquery dropshadow plugin',
'scope actions in application.js to specific pages'
]
todos.each do |todo|
should_eventually todo
end
end
end
The output of this is:
* DEFERRED: TODO: should add the jquery rounded corners plugin. * DEFERRED: TODO: should add the jquery dropshadow plugin. * DEFERRED: TODO: should scope actions in application.js to specific pages.
Since this isn't really an integration test I usually add a line for this in the .gitignore.
Also - this is a handy bash alias to print the todo's without the deferred/should language:
alias todo="ruby test/integration/todos_test.rb | grep TODO | sed -e 's/DEFERRED: TODO: should //g'"
The cleaned up output is:
* add the jquery rounded corners plugin. * add the jquery dropshadow plugin. * scope actions in application.js to specific pages.
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[...] to BlenderBox for bringing this to my attention while researching Shoulda integration [...]