[LRUG] test-driven development and rails question

[Dafydd Rees]

Hello,

I've done a lot of test-driven development in Java (and a bit in a few 
other languages too), but I find the setup in rails a bit confusing.

I want to ask people who've gotten used to the rails way of doing things:

* When rails says "unit tests" does it really mean "unit tests for models"?
* .. and does rails see functional testing as "testing one or more of 
the controllers together"?


It looks that way to me (although I've seen the asserts for testing 
template population in functional tests).

What if a controller gets complex enough for me to extract a few classes 
out of it. It doesn't look like rails considers supporting those classes 
with unit tests.

Am I the only one thinking this?

Any thoughts on this appreciated.

Cheers,
Dafydd
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