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    User Alerts in Rails With Message Block: & Testing Gems With Cucumber/Cukigem

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    USER ALERTS IN RAILS

    WITH MESSAGE BLOCK


    & Testing Gems with Cucumber/Cukigem

    Ben Hughes
    @rubiety

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    WHAT USER ALERTS?
    Flash Messages: ActiveRecord Errors:

    flash[:notice] = "User Created" class User < ActiveRecord::Base


    validates_presence_of :login
    end
    <% if flash[:notice] %>
    <p><%= h flash[:notice] %></p>
    <% end %> <% form_for(@user) do |f| %>
    <%= error_messages_for :user %>
    <% end %>

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    MESSAGE BLOCK FEATURES
    • Merges AR errors and flash messages together

    • Groups by message type (confirm, error, warn, etc.)

    • Accepts flashes with array of strings

    • Pull AR errors from multiple models

    • Update via JavaScript for easy Ajax

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    class CommentsController
    def create
    @new = User.create(:first_name => "")
    @comment = Comment.create(:contents => "")

    flash.now[:error] = "Error A"


    flash.now[:confirm] = "Confirmation A" # Note you can use different types
    flash.now[:warn] = ["Warn A", "Warn B"] # Can set to an array for multiple messages
    end
    end

    <%= message_block :on => [:user, :comment] %>

    <div id="message_block" class="message_block">


    <ul class="error">
    <li>Error A</li>
    <li>User first name is required.</li>
    <li>Comment contents is required.</li>
    </ul>
    <ul class="confirm">
    <li>Confirmation A</li>
    </ul>
    <ul class="warn">
    <li>Warn A</li>
    <li>Warn B</li>
    </ul>
    </div>

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    <div id="something">
    <%= message_block :on => :job %>
    </div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
    document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
    message_block = new MessageBlock('message_block');
    message_block.update({
    error: ['Error One', 'Error Two'],
    confirm: ['Confirmation Message']
    });

    // Clears the message block


    message_block.clear();
    });
    </script>

    render :status => :unprocessable_entity, :json => { 'error' => @job.errors.full_messages }

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    INSTALLATION & ASSETS
    # In Gemfile:
    gem "message_block"

    $ rake message_block:install

    <%= stylesheet_include_tag "message_block" %>

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    TESTING GEMS W/CUCUMBER

    Fully testing a Rails gem plugin from the outside in


    involves a “host application”, how do we do this with
    Cucumber?

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    SIMPLE PROBLEM? NO
    • Class Caching in test environment is enabled by default

    • Need to reset database connections after migrations

    • Making webrat/capybara “attach” to the host application is difficult

    • Don’t want to regenerate rails app on every story run, so need to


    “reset” application to blank state

    • Making the host app use your gem with Bundler is challenging

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    CUKIGEM
    A series of step definitions for cucumber to help testing your
    gems within a host (test) Rails application.

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    Given "I generate a rails application"
    Given "I have a rails application"
    Given "I ensure a rails application is generated"
    Given "I turn off class caching in the rails application"
    Given "I ensure a rails application is generated"
    Given "I reset the rails application"
    Given "I reset the routes file"
    Given "I define an application controller"
    Given "I reset the Gemfile"
    When "the Gemfile is configured for testing"
    When "the Gemfile contains this gem"
    When "I setup the database"
    When "I start the rails application"
    When "I save the following as 'app/controllers/tasks_controller.rb'"
    When "I append the following to 'Gemfile'"
    When "I run 'rake message_block:install'"
    Then "the file 'public/stylesheets/message_block.css' should exist"

    Monday, February 7, 2011


    QUESTIONS?

    Ben Hughes
    @rubiety
    http://github.com/rubiety

    Monday, February 7, 2011

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