# should cache-money work with rails unit tests? **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Created:** [November 2, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/should-cache-money-work-with-rails-unit-tests/47251 "2009-11-02T03:51:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Con](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Con](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Con)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/should-cache-money-work-with-rails-unit-tests/47251/1 "2009-11-02T03:51:13Z")
> The Cache Money page ([http://github.com/nkallen/cache-money](http://github.com/nkallen/cache-money)) mentions > > "For your unit tests, it is faster to use a Memcached mock than the real > > deal." > > Faster is fine but will it work with memcached? It doesn’t work with > > mine, I suspect the cache is not cleared between tests. I suspect this > > is just a documentation issue. > > This is a great GEM but it’s sad that documentation corrections are on > > various forums. :-\ > > One other question. to get it to work I needed to require memcache in > > my initializer. Anyone know why this is? Here it is (pieced together > > from various forums) > > require ‘memcache’ > > require ‘cache\_money’ > > if RAILS\_ENV == ‘test’ > > $memcache = Cash::Mock.new > > else > > if RAILS\_ENV != ‘development’ > > ``` > config = YAML.load(IO.read(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "config", > > ``` > > “memcached.yml”)))[RAILS\_ENV] > > ``` > $memcache = MemCache.new(config) > > $memcache.servers = config['servers'] > > ``` > > $local = Cash::Local.new($memcache) > > ``` > $lock = Cash::Lock.new($memcache) > > $cache = Cash::Transactional.new($local, $lock) > > class ActiveRecord::Base > > is_cached :repository => $cache > > end > > ``` > > else > > # If we’re in development mode, we don’t want to > > # deal with cacheing oddities, so let’s overrite > > # cache-money’s #index method to do nothing… > > ``` > class ActiveRecord::Base > > def self.index(*args) > > end > > end > > ``` > > end > > end Hi, I would recommend taking a look at the following for proper use of: [http://github.com/ngmoco/cache-money/blob/master/spec/memcached\_wrapper\_test.rb](http://github.com/ngmoco/cache-money/blob/master/spec/memcached_wrapper_test.rb) Good luck, -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![Con](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Con](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Con)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/should-cache-money-work-with-rails-unit-tests/47251/2 "2009-11-02T06:05:52Z")
> > The Cache Money page ([http://github.com/nkallen/cache-money](http://github.com/nkallen/cache-money)) mentions > > > > "For your unit tests, it is faster to use a Memcached mock than the real > > > > deal." > > > > Faster is fine but will it work with memcached? It doesn’t work with > > > > mine, I suspect the cache is not cleared between tests. I suspect this > > > > is just a documentation issue. For properly clearing the cache before each test, you should reference the link below to create a suitable ‘setup’ and ‘teardown’ methods for your unit, functional, and integration tests. > > This is a great GEM but it’s sad that documentation corrections are on > > > > various forums. :-\ > > > > One other question. to get it to work I needed to require memcache in > > > > my initializer. Anyone know why this is? Here it is (pieced together > > > > from various forums) In short, it’s part of the Rails application initialization process and it must be completed before the Rails application is ready for use. For example, if you take a look at the file in #{RAILS\_ROOT}/config/initializers, you’ll see other files that are part of the application initialization process. Furthermore, this process usually takes place after the loading of both plugins and gems. Good luck, -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![Tony5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@Tony5](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Tony5)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/should-cache-money-work-with-rails-unit-tests/47251/3 "2009-11-02T12:58:10Z")
Thanks for the pointers Conrad. It seems this project has several active forks on github. How does one go about choosing one? My hunch is to go with a fork that is still active but my fear is that it may diverge from what the original author intended and will become deprecated. Any recommendations here? ---
**Author:** ![Con](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Con](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Con)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/should-cache-money-work-with-rails-unit-tests/47251/4 "2009-11-02T13:13:17Z")
> Thanks for the pointers Conrad. It seems this project has several > > active forks on github. How does one go about choosing one? My hunch > > is to go with a fork that is still active but my fear is that it may > > diverge from what the original author intended and will become > > deprecated. > > Any recommendations here? Hi, I would recommend getting the version from [http://www.gemcutter.org/gems/ngmoco-cache-money](http://www.gemcutter.org/gems/ngmoco-cache-money) -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![Tony5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@Tony5](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Tony5)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/should-cache-money-work-with-rails-unit-tests/47251/5 "2009-11-02T15:16:53Z")
It looks like these newer versions don't bother with the initializer making the setup easier (i guess test cases us the mock by default). At the moment I am using ashleym1972-cache-money-0.2.9 as ngmoco gives the following error gem install ngmoco-cache-money ERROR: could not find gem ngmoco-cache-money locally or in a repository I have the following sources. gem sources \*\*\* CURRENT SOURCES \*\*\* [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/)[http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com) ---
**Author:** ![Con](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Con](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Con)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/should-cache-money-work-with-rails-unit-tests/47251/6 "2009-11-03T04:52:43Z")
> > > > > > Thanks for the pointers Conrad. It seems this project has several > > > > active forks on github. How does one go about choosing one? My hunch > > > > is to go with a fork that is still active but my fear is that it may > > > > diverge from what the original author intended and will become > > > > deprecated. > > > > > > > Any recommendations here? > > > > > > Hi, I would recommend getting the version from > > > > > > [http://www.gemcutter.org/gems/ngmoco-cache-money](http://www.gemcutter.org/gems/ngmoco-cache-money) > > > > > > -Conrad > It looks like these newer versions don’t bother with the initializer > > making the setup easier (i guess test cases us the mock by default). > > At the moment I am using ashleym1972-cache-money-0.2.9 as ngmoco gives > > the following error > > gem install ngmoco-cache-money > > ERROR: could not find gem ngmoco-cache-money locally or in a > > repository > > I have the following sources. > > gem sources > > \*\*\* CURRENT SOURCES \*\*\* > > [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/) > > [http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com) > Hi, you’ll need to install gemcutter gem and update your primary gem host by doing the following: sudo gem install gemcutter gem tumble Good luck, -Conrad