RSpec Rails Examples

Rails app with examples of how to test with RSpec and other testing gems.

• Testing Rake Tasks with RSpec
• Pry-rescue debugging
• Time Travel Examples
• Database Cleaner Examples
• Factory Girl Examples
• Capybara Examples
• Shoulda-Matchers Examples
• Email-Spec Examples
• Devise Examples
• RSpec-Expectations Docs
• RSpec-Mocks Specs & Docs
• RSpec-Rails
  • Matchers
  • Generators
  • Feature Specs & Docs
  • Mailer Specs & Docs
  • Controller Specs & Docs
  • Helper Specs & Docs
  • Routing Specs & Docs
• Contributors

Testing Rake Tasks with RSpec

RSpec testing Rake task example:

• spec/tasks/subscription_tasks_spec.rb

Pry-rescue debugging

pry-rescue can be used to debug failing specs, by opening pry's debugger whenever a test failure is encountered. For setup and usage see pry-rescue's README.

Time Travel Examples

ActiveSupport::Testing::TimeHelpers provides helpers for manipulating and freezing the current time reported within tests. These methods are often enough to replace the time-related testing methods that the timecop gem is used for.

TimeHelpers configuration how-to and examples:

• spec/support/time_helpers.rb
• spec/models/subscription_spec.rb
• spec/tasks/subscription_tasks_spec.rb
• travel_to example: spec/models/subscription_spec.rb
• ActiveSupport::Testing::TimeHelpers API documentation

Database Cleaner Examples

Database Cleaner is a set of strategies for cleaning your database in Ruby, to ensure a consistent environment for each test run.

Database Cleaner configuration how-to:

• spec/support/database_cleaner.rb

Factory Girl Examples

Factory Girl is a library to help setup test data. factory_girl_rails integrates Factory Girl with Rails.

Factory Girl configuration how-to and examples:

• spec/support/factory_girl.rb
• spec/factories
• spec/factories/users.rb
• spec/models/subscription_spec.rb
• spec/tasks/subscription_tasks_spec.rb
• spec/features/user_login_and_logout_spec.rb

Capybara Examples

Capybara helps you write feature specs that interact with your app's UI as a user does with a browser.

Capybara configuration how-to and examples:

• spec/support/capybara.rb
• spec/features/home_page_spec.rb
• spec/features/subscribe_to_newsletter_spec.rb
• spec/features/user_login_and_logout_spec.rb
• spec/features/user_registers_spec.rb
• Capybara cheatsheet
• Capybara matchers

Shoulda-Matchers Examples

Shoulda-matchers make light work of model specs.

shoulda-matchers configuration how-to and examples:

• spec/support/shoulda-matchers.rb
• spec/models/subscription_spec.rb

Email-Spec Examples

The "Subscribe to newsletter" feature was developed with help from email_spec

email_spec configuration how-to and examples:

• spec/support/email_spec.rb
• spec/mailers/subscription_mailer_spec.rb
• spec/features/subscribe_to_newsletter_spec.rb
• spec/features/user_registers_spec.rb

Devise Examples

Specs testing registration, sign-in, and other user authentication features provided by Devise:

• spec/features/user_login_and_logout_spec.rb
• spec/features/user_registers_spec.rb

RSpec-Expectations Docs

• RSpec-Expectations API
• RSpec-Expectations matchers

RSpec-Mocks Specs & Docs

• spec/controllers/subscriptions_controller_spec.rb
• spec/mailers/subscription_mailer_spec.rb
• spec/models/subscription_spec.rb
• RSpec Mocks API

RSpec-Rails

See RSpec Rails for installation instructions.

Matchers

• https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/v/3-1/docs/matchers

Generators

• https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/v/3-1/docs/generators

Feature Specs & Docs

• spec/features/subscribe_to_newsletter_spec.rb
• Feature specs API

Mailer Specs & Docs

• spec/mailers/subscription_mailer_spec.rb
• Mailer specs API

Controller Specs & Docs

• spec/controllers/subscriptions_controller_spec.rb
• Controller specs API
• Controller specs cheatsheet

Helper Specs & Docs

• spec/helpers/application_helper_spec.rb
• Helper specs API

Routing Specs & Docs

• spec/routing/subscriptions_routing_spec.rb
• Routing specs API

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Contributors

• Eliot Sykes https://eliotsykes.com/
• Your name here, contributions are welcome and easy! Just fork the GitHub repo, make your changes, then submit your pull request!