Paul Ingles - Writing a Typo Sidebar Test First In Rails Commentstag:www.oobaloo.co.uk,2008:/articles/2006/8/15/writing-a-typo-sidebar-test-first-in-rails/commentsMephisto Noh-Varr2006-08-15T19:21:55ZIjonastag:www.oobaloo.co.uk,2006-08-15:83:2032006-09-23T10:04:59Z2006-09-23T10:04:59ZComment on 'Writing a Typo Sidebar Test First In Rails' by IjonasOoops. My apologies Paul. I didn't RTFM. I downloaded the diff patch and got several steps further.
Thanks again.Ijonastag:www.oobaloo.co.uk,2006-08-15:83:2022006-09-23T09:51:55Z2006-09-23T09:51:55ZComment on 'Writing a Typo Sidebar Test First In Rails' by IjonasHi Paul,
I can't seem to get the 'first sidebar test' to work: RelatedArticlesControllerTest. Any chance you could add the full source code that to your repository? I seem to be missing something.
Running the test, it complains about:
ActionController::RoutingError: No url can be generated for the hash {:controller=>"plugins/sidebars/related_articles", :action=>"content", :contents=>"#<article:0xb74da4e0>"}
Did you need to update your routes.rb and possibly added a route for the related articles controller ?
Many thanks for your help,
Ijonas.Benjamintag:www.oobaloo.co.uk,2006-08-15:83:2012006-08-16T18:04:03Z2006-08-16T18:04:03ZComment on 'Writing a Typo Sidebar Test First In Rails' by BenjaminVery thorough explanation for side-bar testing. It makes it a lot easier to have these sorts of base examples to go from. Thank you for sharing! - ben @ http://rubyonrailsblog.com/Piers Cawleytag:www.oobaloo.co.uk,2006-08-15:83:2002006-08-16T15:13:51Z2006-08-16T15:13:51ZComment on 'Writing a Typo Sidebar Test First In Rails' by Piers CawleyNow I've got the idea, it's pretty easy to test sidebars.
I'm busy adding tests to 'representative' sidebars as groundwork for a Spike in the next couple days and a more considered bit of refactoring after that.Paul Inglestag:www.oobaloo.co.uk,2006-08-15:83:1992006-08-16T12:27:42Z2006-08-16T12:27:42ZComment on 'Writing a Typo Sidebar Test First In Rails' by Paul InglesThanks Piers!
I know what you mean, that's the beauty of pairing and rotating! I missed it when I was doing the code for this article!
I definitely like the idea of it going into vendor/plugins. Especially since this plugin relied on extending Article, to deploy it as-is I think will need a plugin and a component. I'm going to take a look at that tonight, or on the train back to London tomorrow night.
:) great news!Piers Cawleytag:www.oobaloo.co.uk,2006-08-15:83:1982006-08-15T23:15:51Z2006-08-15T23:15:51ZComment on 'Writing a Typo Sidebar Test First In Rails' by Piers CawleyFabulous article, thanks.
I'm now wondering why we ever thought that sidebars were detestable. I guess you can be a little too close to your code.
I'm in the process of attempting to eliminate the FooSidebarController in favour of subclassing the Sidebar object and rendering sidebars via a standard helper in the ApplicationHelper. The current thinking is along the lines of "`render_component` must die!", which will make it far easier to write a sidebar as something you can just drop into vendor/plugins.
I have the feeling I shall be porting the related articles sidebar first. Tests are good...