TBH, I'm quite willing to trust that the rails guys have written their
own thorough unit tests on their caching system, and not bother.
Sounds like a lot of effort which will probably prove to be
unnessecary... that is, unless you're having some kind of problem and
think that caching is at fault....?
-Nathan
TBH, I'm quite willing to trust that the rails guys have written their
own thorough unit tests on their caching system, and not bother.
Sounds like a lot of effort which will probably prove to be
unnessecary... that is, unless you're having some kind of problem and
think that caching is at fault....?
It's not to test that cached versions are being served properly; it's
to test that your own code is expiring caches at the right time.
Considering how many different pages you may need to flush the cache
for when saving a single object, and how many you expect not to be
flushed, I would say that being able to test your sweeper code is a
good thing.
If it's possible to test it easily, I'd like to know how. Unit tests
for the sweeper class? How do you assert that a page or action or
fragment is cached?
-Nathan
Sincerely,
Tom Lieber
http://AllTom.com/
http://GadgetLife.org/
That stuff is difficult to test unfortunately. I use integration
testing for that in Mephisto:
http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/mephisto/trunk/test/integration/caching_test.rb
http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/mephisto/trunk/test/referenced_caching_test_helper.rb
I imagine you could write up some nifty mock fragment cacher that
would make that testing easier though. That would be nifty.
I wrote something like this a few months ago - I'll see if I can dig
it up this evening.
Tom
I wrote something like this a few months ago - I'll see if I can dig
it up this evening.
Any luck?
Tom
Sincerely,
Tom Lieber
http://AllTom.com/
http://GadgetLife.org/
Yeah, I found what I'd written, but it's a nasty hack, so I'm going to
clean it up a little and make it into a plugin. I'll post it by the
end of the day.
Tom
Slightly later than promised, here's the code, packaged as a plugin.
Unfortunately http access to my svn repository is down, so I've
created an archive:
http://dev.popdog.net/caching_test_helper.tar.gz
Basic usage is something like:
assert_writes_fragment(:controller => :report, :action => :salary) do
# some code
end
assert_expires_fragment(:controller => :report, :action => :salary) do
# some code
end
There's no need to clear/populate the cache with fragments before the
assertion. Also, the code should work as well in a unit test as a
functional one (useful if, like me, you expire fragments in a
different process to the web dispatcher).
If anyone finds it useful, let me know,
Tom
Slightly later than promised, here's the code, packaged as a plugin.
Unfortunately http access to my svn repository is down, so I've
created an archive:http://dev.popdog.net/caching_test_helper.tar.gz
Basic usage is something like:
assert_writes_fragment(:controller => :report, :action => :salary) do
# some code
endassert_expires_fragment(:controller => :report, :action => :salary) do
# some code
endThere's no need to clear/populate the cache with fragments before the
assertion. Also, the code should work as well in a unit test as a
functional one (useful if, like me, you expire fragments in a
different process to the web dispatcher).If anyone finds it useful, let me know,
Thanks, this looks handy! I'm going to try it soon, and let you know
if I come across anything odd.
Tom
Sincerely,
Tom Lieber
http://AllTom.com/
http://GadgetLife.org/
I now have a version in subversion if you'd prefer. No significant
changes to the fragment caching assertions, but some work towards page
caching assertions. Available from:
http://svn.popdog.net/public/rails/plugins/caching_test_helper/tags/REL-0.1/
Tom
I now have a version in subversion if you'd prefer. No significant
changes to the fragment caching assertions, but some work towards page
caching assertions. Available from:http://svn.popdog.net/public/rails/plugins/caching_test_helper/tags/REL-0.1/
Mine only handled page caching. This plugin looks much better.
