== Running with Rake The easiest way to run the unit tests is through Rake. The default task runs the entire test suite for all classes. For more information, checkout the full array of rake tasks with "rake -T" Rake can be found at http://rake.rubyforge.org == Running by hand If you only want to run a single test suite, or don't want to bother with Rake, you can do so with something like: ruby controller/base_tests.rb == Dependency on ActiveRecord and database setup Test cases in test/controller/active_record_assertions.rb depend on having activerecord installed and configured in a particular way. See comment in the test file itself for details. If ActiveRecord is not in actionpack/../activerecord directory, these tests are skipped. If activerecord is installed, but not configured as expected, the tests will fail. Other tests are runnable from a fresh copy of actionpack without any configuration.