running single rails unit/functional test - ruby-on-rails

As title.
ruby test/functionals/whatevertest.rb doesn't work, that requires me to replace all require 'test_helper' to require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'. For some reason most of those test templates have such issue, so I rather to see if there is a hack I could get around it.

The following answer is based on: How to run single test from rails test suite? (stackoverflow)
But very briefly, here's the answer:
ruby -I test test/functional/whatevertest.rb
For a specific functional test, run:
ruby -I test test/functional/whatevertest.rb -n test_should_get_index
Just put underscores in places of spaces in test names (as above), or quote the title as follows:
ruby -I test test/functional/whatevertest.rb -n 'test should get index'
Note that for unit tests just replace functional with unit in the examples above. And if you're using bundler to manage your application's gem dependencies, you'll have to execute the tests with bundle exec as follows:
bundle exec ruby -I test test/unit/specific_model_test.rb
bundle exec ruby -I test test/unit/specific_model_test.rb -n test_divide_by_zero
bundle exec ruby -I test test/unit/specific_model_test.rb -n 'test divide by zero'
Most importantly, note that the argument to the -n switch is the name of the test, and the word "test" prepended to it, with spaces or underscores depending on whether you're quoting the name or not. The reason is that test is a convenience method. The following two methods are equivalent:
test "should get high" do
assert true
end
def test_should_get_high
assert true
end
...and can be executed as either of the following (they are equivalent):
bundle exec ruby -I test test/integration/misc_test.rb -n 'test should get high'
bundle exec ruby -I test test/integration/misc_test.rb -n test_should_get_high

Try this:
ruby -Ilib:test test/functionals/whatevertest.rb

On Linux? why not try (cd test && ruby functionals/whatevertest.rb). Note, the parentheses are important as otherwise your current directory will change to the subdirectory. What it does is fork another shell, change to the subdirectory in it, and run the test.

If you are on Rails 4, then rake supports file / directory arguments. Example:
rake test test/unit/user_test.rb
rake test test/unit

The answer for the title question would be:
ruby unit/post_test.rb -n selected_test # use to run only one selected test
but for the body of the question tvanfosson gave a good answer.

After spending endless hours on this, I finally found the solution (in Rails 3.0.7) :
ruby -I test test/functional/users_controller_test.rb -n "/the_test_name/"
Note, this only works with underbars (_) in the command. It does not work with spaces!
Define the test with spaces as:
test "the test name" do
This solution uses pattern matching, so you can use part of the test name. If the test is "should do foo", then either of the following will work as well.
ruby -I test test/functional/alerts_controller_test.rb -n "/foo/"
ruby -I test test/functional/alerts_controller_test.rb -n "/do_foo/"
The following (with spaces) will not work:
ruby -I test test/functional/alerts_controller_test.rb -n "/do foo/"

most conventional method for 2 and 3 is:
ruby -I test test/functional/your_test_file.rb

Related

Shortcut to run all rails tests?

I have to type
bundle exec rspec spec lib/crucible_kit/spec
every time I want to run all 700 of my rspec tests for my rails application. Is there anyway I could shorten down this to just typing "rr" to run all tests?
If so, where would I put this file in my rails application? And would I be able to push it to git branch so my teammates can use it?
Enter the code below in your command-line.
alias rr="bundle exec rspec"
It will be appended to this file ~/.bash_rc

Minitest Exit on first failure?

I'm using Minitest with Rails.
How do I get it to exit on the first failure if I'm running a bunch of tests? I want this to happen when I'm writing the tests because it's a waste of time for later tests to run after the failed one.
I've just found this answer while searching for the solution, but at least in Rails 5.1 you have one option:
rails test -h Usage: bin/rails test [options] [files or directories]
You can run a single test by appending a line number to a filename:
bin/rails test test/models/user_test.rb:27
You can run multiple files and directories at the same time:
bin/rails test test/controllers test/integration/login_test.rb
By default test failures and errors are reported inline during a run.
Rails options:
-w, --warnings Run with Ruby warnings enabled
-e, --environment Run tests in the ENV environment
-b, --backtrace Show the complete backtrace
-d, --defer-output Output test failures and errors after the test run
-f, --fail-fast Abort test run on first failure or error
-c, --[no-]color Enable color in the output
So you just just need to run rails test -f
You can probably use the minitest-fail-fast gem. You may also modify the Minitest reporters engine to exit after reporting a failure.

Run Rails commands outside of console

With my large application, the Rails console takes a while to load up. Is there a way to single commands more easily?
I'd also like to be able to automate stuff, and echo "query" | rails console isn't a great way to do things.
Thoughts?
EDIT: What about a long-running process that I can ping queries to whenever I have need?
There are two main ways to run commands outside console:
Rake task which depends on :environment
rails runner (previously script/runner), eg:
$ rails runner "query"
Both are pretty well documented on the rails guide: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-runner
Both of these methods will still take the same time as a console to fire up, but they are useful for non-interactive tasks.
Just pipe it in:
echo 'puts Article.count' | bundle exec rails c
It should now be a lot faster than when then the question was originally asked, because of Spring. It's not immediate, but still a lot faster than spinning up the whole app. Use this for the fast lane, it should run in under a second (assuming your required command is fast):
echo 'puts Article.count' | spring rails c
If you really want a single long-running process, you could easily do it by creating a controller action that simply runs whatever you POST to it, then send commands to it using curl behind an alias. The action would of course be completely insecure and should be triple-guarded against running anywhere near production, but it would be easy to setup.
Solution: bundle exec command allows us to run an executable script in the specific context of the project's bundle - making all gems specified in the Gemfile available to require in Ruby application. In addition it eventually avoids any conflicts with other versions of rake installed globally.
echo '<command>' | bundle exec rails c
for more information look at the documentation of bundler
example:
configuration_item=$(echo 'ConfigurationManager.getKey("authentication_method")' | bundle exec rails c )
echo $configuration_item
#output:
MFA_authentication

How to run a single shoulda context test in ruby Test::Unit framework

I can typically test a regular Test::Unit method using the following commandline syntax for a method "delete_user_test":
ruby functional/user_controller_test.rb -n delete_user_test
Now when I'm using the shoulda plugin with Test::Unit I try to use the same technique as follows:
...
context "Deleting a User" do
should "remove user from user table" do
...
end
end
Then I try to run the single test as follows:
ruby functional/user_controller_test.rb -n "test: Deleting a User should remove user from user table"
This doesn't work. Does anyone know how I can run a single context tests using shoulda and Test::Unit. I have a couple of different test in one test file and I want to only run the one using TDD without having to wait for all tests to run.
This works for me:
ruby functional/user_controller_test.rb -n "/Deleting a User/"
Just put some reasonably long string from your context name into the regular expression.
Using the full name of the test with a space at the end seems to work too:
ruby -Itest
functional/user_controller_test.rb
-n "test: Deleting a user should remove user from user table. "
Combining the two approaches has worked well for me; using both -I test and the regexp.
ruby -Itest functional/user_controller_teset.rb -n "/remove user from user table/"

How to run a single test from a Rails test suite?

How can I run a single test from a Rails test suite?
rake test ANYTHING seems to not help.
NOTE: This doesn't run the test via rake. So any code you have in Rakefile will NOT get executed.
To run a single test, use the following command from your rails project's main directory:
ruby -I test test/unit/my_model_test.rb -n test_name
This runs a single test named "name", defined in the MyModelTest class in the specified file. The test_name is formed by taking the test name, prepending it with the word "test", then separating the words with underscores. For example:
class MyModelTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
test 'valid with good attributes' do
# do whatever you do
end
test 'invalid with bad attributes' do
# do whatever you do
end
end
You can run both tests via:
ruby -I test test/unit/my_model_test.rb
and just the second test via
ruby -I test test/unit/my_model_test.rb -n test_invalid_with_bad_attributes
Run a test file:
rake test TEST=tests/functional/accounts_test.rb
Run a single test in a test file:
rake test TEST=tests/functional/accounts_test.rb TESTOPTS="-n /paid accounts/"
(From #Puhlze 's comment.)
For rails 5:
rails test test/models/my_model.rb
Thanks to #James, the answer seems to be:
rails test test/models/my_model.rb:22
Assuming 22 is the line number of the given test. According to rails help:
$ rails test --help
You can run a single test by appending a line number to a filename:
bin/rails test test/models/user_test.rb:27
Also, please note that your test should inherit from ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest for this to work (That was my mistake):
class NexApiTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
.
.
.
Rails 5
I used this way to run single test file (all the tests in one file)
rails test -n /TopicsControllerTest/ -v
Another option is to use the line number (which is printed below a failing test):
rails test test/model/my_model.rb:15
In my situation for rake only works TESTOPTS="-n='/your_test_name/'":
bundle exec rake test TEST=test/system/example_test.rb TESTOPTS="-n='/your_test_name/'"
To run a single test in the actual Rails suite:
bundle exec ruby -I"railties/test" actionpack/test/template/form_options_helper_test.rb
That was a silly midnight question of mine. Rails kindly prints the command it is executing upon rake test. The rest is a cut and paste exercise.
~/projects/rails/actionpack (my2.3.4)$ ruby -I"lib:test" "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/controller/base_test.rb"
The best way is to look directly into the guides: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.html#running-tests
cd actionmailer
bundle exec ruby -w -Itest test/mail_layout_test.rb -n test_explicit_class_layout
If you want to run a single test, you can just run them as a regular Ruby script
ruby actionmailer/test/mail_layout_test.rb
You can also run a whole suite (eg. ActiveRecord or ActionMailer) by cd-ing into the directory and running rake test inside there.
To re-run a test that just failed, copy-n-paste the failed test name into
rails test -n [test-name]
EXAMPLE
When your test suite reports this:
> rails test
...
Error:
PlayersControllerTest#test_should_show_player:
ActionView::Template::Error: no implicit conversion from nil to integer
you rerun the failing test with this:
rails test -n PlayersControllerTest#test_should_show_player
If rake is running MiniTest, the option is --name instead of -n.
rake test TEST=test/unit/progress_test.rb TESTOPTS="--name=testCreate"
First, access the folder of the lib you want to test(this is important) and then run:
~/Projects/rails/actionview (master)$ ruby -I test test/template/number_helper_test.rb
Rails folder
bundle install
bundle exec ruby -I"activerecord/test" activerecord/test/cases/relation/where_test.rb
Note you need to load appropriate folder: "activerecord/test" (where you have test)

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