Testing Environment for Plugints

Hello,

I'm currently creating my first plugin in rails. It creates a model and a mixin for controllers. For testing purposes I need a test controller (sort of a mock) to which I can include my mixin and test wether the mixed in methods work. My problem is in order to do this I either have to setup my test enviorment in a rails app outside of my plugin or I have to replicate a whole rails environment in my plugin so that the standard routing stuff and everything works. Is this the normal procedure or is there an easier way? I searched the group and made a search on the net but I have not found a satisfactory answer yet. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards musk

In the past i've done the whole fake up a whole rails environment thing, but you can also do stuff like http://www.alexyoung.org/articles/show/44/rails_plugin_testing_guide

Fred