Railties tests

rubyonrails-core
#1

Are the Railties tests current and passing at the moment? I ask
because I found an old thread saying that they're neglected [1], but I
can't find any recent discussions.
-Nick

[1] http://tinyurl.com/acuhkr

#2

Well, SOME of them are running and passing as of right now. See
http://ci.rubyonrails.org/builds/rails , open Build Log, and search
for RailTies. Look in /ci/ci_setup_notes.txt for a procedure to
reproduce a working test environment.

-- Chad

#3

Thanks, Chad. After reading through that, I'm wondering how one should
run a specific RailTies test file, rather than the entire suite.

This approach seems to work, but spits out 39 warnings for me:
rails/railties$ rake regular_test TEST=test/initializer_test.rb

This approach fails:
rails/railties$ ruby test/initializer_test.rb
test/initializer_test.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load --
abstract_unit (LoadError)
  from test/initializer_test.rb:1

Any suggestions?
-Nick

#4

This approach fails:
rails/railties$ ruby test/initializer_test.rb
test/initializer_test.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load --
abstract_unit (LoadError)
  from test/initializer_test.rb:1

try

ruby -Itest test/initializer_test.rb

Fred

#5

or `rake TEST=test/initializer_test.rb`

jeremy

#6

Thanks Fred, that works!

#7

Actually, that resulted in all of the tests in test/ being run:
http://pastie.org/386208

-Nick

#8

After reading through railties/test/initializer_test.rb and other test
files, I've noticed that there aren't any tests for reading the
database configuration file, or for establishing the database
connection.

This is my first time writing a patch for Rails. Thus, I'm not sure
how to begin writing tests for changes that I make to the following
methods:
Rails::Initializer#initialize_database
Rails::Configuration#database_configuration

When someone has a minute, would you mind pointing me to some docs, a
tutorial, or explaining how I should approach this?

Thanks guys.
Nick