Ruby on Rails

On 16 May 2011, at 16:01, Lille <lille.penguini@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!
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> So, maybe I automate the creation of the in-memory database with a
> rake task for the test? If not, what do you think?
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> I think an issue here is that my modules assuming their parents are AR
> classes. Is that really modular?

Depends on what your code does - if it is inherently very active-recordy stuff then that's probably ok. If it is legitimate to include the module in a non activerecord class then I'd aim to do that in tests too.

Fred.
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> Lille
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> On May 16, 10:47 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On May 16, 3:37 pm, Lille <lille.pengu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> I'm converting some AR classes into modules and moving their
>>> attributes to whatever AR classes formerly held the association.
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>>> I'm finding it hard to test these modules.
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>>> I think I want to use a tableless AR model in my module tests. I just
>>> define one of these -- with the attributes the module needs -- in the
>>> test file and use it in the test. This works, but not for all AR
>>> methods. In particular, I run into errors when I invoke certain AR
>>> methods that seem to require the presence of a table.
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>>> So, simply put, how do I get a fully functional AR model for use in
>>> testing, without an accompanying migration?
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>> not entirely what you ask, but how about creating an in memory
>> sqlite3 database and creating tables in there (you don't need a
>> migration file - you can have the table creating stuff in your test's
>> setup) ?
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>> Fred
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>>> Any thoughts?
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>>> Thanks,
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>>> Lille
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