Hornsby¶ ↑

A Scenario Builder without the fixture pain.

Usage¶ ↑

Scenarios look like:

scenario :apple do
  @apple = Fruit.create! :species => 'apple'
end

scenario :orange do
  @orange = Fruit.create! :species => 'orange'
end

scenario :fruitbowl => [:apple,:orange] do
  @fruitbowl = FruitBowl.create! :fruit => [@apple,@orange]
end

scenario :kitchen => :fruitbowl do
  @kitchen = Kitchen.create! :fruitbowl => @fruitbowl
end

…and you use them in specs like:

describe Fruit, "@apple" do
  before do
    hornsby_scenario :apple
  end

  it "should be an apple" do
    @apple.species.should == 'apple'
  end
end

describe FruitBowl, "with and apple and an orange" do
  before do
    hornsby_scenario :fruitbowl
  end

  it "should have 2 fruits" do
    @fruitbowl.should have(2).fruit
  end
end

Setup¶ ↑

Install the plugin:

./script/plugin install git://github.com/lachie/hornsby.git

Add the following to spec_helper.rb

# by default this loads scenarios from RAILS_ROOT/spec/hornsby_scenarios.rb
Hornsby.load

Spec::Runner.configure do |config|
  ...

  config.include(HornsbySpecHelper)
end

Advanced Usage¶ ↑

Its just ruby, right? So go nuts:

1.upto(9) do |i|
  scenario("user_#{i}") do
    user = User.create! :name => "user#{i}"
    instance_variable_set("@user_#{i}",user)
  end
end

Rake¶ ↑

If you’d like simply to load your scenarios into a database, use the rake task like so:

$ rake hornsby:scenario RAILS_ENV=test SCENARIO=fruitbowl

TODO¶ ↑

• Make transactional for speed.

• Add scenario namespaces for better organisation.

• Detect scenario cycles.

Credits¶ ↑

Lachie Cox <lachie@smartbomb.com.au>

The code is based on Err’s code found in this post: errtheblog.com/post/7708

License¶ ↑

MIT, see LICENCE