Living with Test and Spec at the same time is annoying, so here is a small Howto for conversion using the Test::Unit to RSpec converter.

1. Change spec/spec_helper.rg ‘config.fixture_path =‘ to test/fixtures OR copy all fixtures from test to spec (svn cp test/fixtures spec/fixtures)
2. copy old code from test_helper to spec_helper (leave includes outside of Spec::Runner.configure do…)
3. sudo gem install spec_converter
4. convert all tests ‘spec_converter‘
5. correct syntax errors
6. search and replace ‘test/xxx’ with ‘spec/xxx’ where neccessary
7. run ‘rake spec‘
8. dance if result == :success

Works very nice for me, just one syntax error to correct, and then everything runs. Not all old asserts will be replaced, but this is not problem, since RSpec can work with Test::Unit assertions.

Today i found a small new plugin, that offers a simple way to convert bugs to a testcase.

script/plugin install http://svn.extendviget.com/lab/laziness/trunk

Now every failing request will print a small test case to repeat this request, it is not much, but it is a starting point and can be helpful if you have a lot of parameters being passed.

Output:

Laziness
def test_get_rating_edit_should_not_raise_activerecord_recordnotfound_exception
  assert_nothing_raised(ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound) do
    get :edit, {"id"=>"1"}, {:user_id=>nil, :return_to=>"/orders/1"}, {}, {"_session_id"=>["…"]}
  end
end

Patch:

Atm you need to apply this patch to make it work without exception_notification.

#vendor/plugins/laziness/lib/laziness.rb
module Laziness
  begin
    module ExceptionNotifier
      ::ExceptionNotifier.sections << 'laziness'
    end
  rescue
  end

Using click /change/i is a good way of testing you links/methods, since it will assure your views render the valid link and you do not have to repeat the link parameters as in get :edit, :id=>3

1. get form_test_helper with
   script/plugin install http://form-test-helper.googlecode.com/svn/form_test_helper/
2. patch vendor/plugins/form_test_helper/lib/form_test_helper.rb

   -  if self["onclick"] && self["onclick"] =~ /'_method'.*'value', '(\w+)'/
   -    $1.to_sym
   +  if self["onclick"] && self["onclick"] =~ /\.method = '(.*)'/
   +    $1.downcase.to_sym

3. insert helper to test/test_helper.rb

     def click(text)
       select_link(text).click
     end

4. click click click clickaround!

     def test_should_not_upload_from_ftp
       login_as :aaron
       assert_invalid_upload do
         `cp -f test/fixtures/videos/test.mov #{ftp_accounts(:aaron).dir}/wrong_name.flv`
   
         click /upload.*ftp/i
         assert_response :redirect
         assert flash[:alert]
       end
     end