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diff --git a/guides/source/testing.md b/guides/source/testing.md index f63ea49955..3bfbf4f7ff 100644 --- a/guides/source/testing.md +++ b/guides/source/testing.md @@ -54,10 +54,12 @@ NOTE: Your tests are run under `RAILS_ENV=test`. ### Rails meets Minitest -If you remember when you used the `rails generate scaffold` command from the [Getting Started with Rails](getting_started.html) guide. We created our first resource among other things it created test stubs in the `test` directory: +If you remember when you used the `rails generate model` command from the +[Getting Started with Rails](getting_started.html) guide. We created our first +model among other things it created test stubs in the `test` directory: ```bash -$ bin/rails generate scaffold article title:string body:text +$ bin/rails generate model article title:string body:text ... create app/models/article.rb create test/models/article_test.rb @@ -649,14 +651,31 @@ You should test for things such as: * was the correct object stored in the response template? * was the appropriate message displayed to the user in the view? -Now that we have used Rails scaffold generator for our `Article` resource, it has already created the controller code and tests. You can take look at the file `articles_controller_test.rb` in the `test/controllers` directory. +The easiest way to see functional tests in action is to generate a controller +scaffold: -The following command will generate a controller test case with a filled up -test for each of the seven default actions. +```bash +$ bin/rails generate scaffold_controller article title:string body:test +... +create app/controllers/articles_controller.rb +... +invoke test_unit +create test/controllers/articles_controller_test.rb +... +``` + +This will generate the controller code and tests for an `Article` resource. +You can take look at the file `articles_controller_test.rb` in the `test/controllers` directory. + +If you already have a controller and just want to generate the test scaffold code for +each of the seven default actions, you can use the following command: ```bash $ bin/rails generate test_unit:scaffold article +... +invoke test_unit create test/controllers/articles_controller_test.rb +... ``` Let me take you through one such test, `test_should_get_index` from the file `articles_controller_test.rb`. @@ -1253,4 +1272,3 @@ assert_equal Date.new(2004, 10, 24), user.activation_date # The change was visib Please see [`ActiveSupport::TimeHelpers` API Documentation](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Testing/TimeHelpers.html) for in-depth information about the available time helpers. - |