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TestPilot – Rails Integration Testing Pattern

October 26th, 2010 by

I’ve been thinking about ways to simplify rails integration testing. I wanted to see how well I could do it without cucumber and rspec. I decided to go pure minitest with capybara to help out. What emerged was the TestPilot pattern. Let’s check it out.
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Testing AJAX with Test::Unit

October 8th, 2010 by

If you want real end-to-end testing of a page with functioning AJAX, use Selenium. But I was interested in doing just a bit of JS speccing to make sure that the AJAX routes I called worked and that the data that came back fit the JS that I had written.

So, I figured with a little capybara and a little therubyracer, I could test my javascript with real route calls. Let’s check it out.
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