When running tests, you can now switch between running them against a
SQLite or PostgreSQL database. This is accomplished by modifying the
unit and acceptance tests so that when they generate and load the test
Rails application, database.yml is replaced with content that will
configure the database appropriately.
* The main problem I had with the old tests is that information that
the reader didn't need to care about was not properly abstracted away.
For instance, a helper method used by almost all tests will always
create a model called Example, and will always use an attribute called
"attr" (on which the validation is present). However, in some tests
the class or attribute is referred to directly. The reader shouldn't
have to care about either of these things, since they are constant --
the tests should be readable enough so that this information is not
necessary to understand the case being tested against.
* Speaking of this helper method, some of the tests used it and some
didn't. Some defined their own helper methods to represent a
particular case (`case_sensitive: true`, `allow_nil`, etc.). This is
now fixed so that all but two tests use the same helper method to
define a model. This model is completely customizable -- one can
specify the type of the attribute being validated, the names and types
of scoped attributes, etc.
* The tests around scoped attributes and different types are all
basically the same, so they are now compressed into a shared context.
* Related to this, we no longer have to worry about setting a proper
value for a scope attribute. One had to know which type that attribute
had and come up with a reasonable default for that type. Now there is
a helper method that worries about this automatically.
* Finally, we remove tests around case_insensitive against an integer
attribute (these don't make any sense, and don't work).
When running unit tests in a random order, some tests may fail as the
columns hash within a model may not be in sync with the database. This
is because the columns hash is cached outside of the model, so removing
the model from the object space and then recreating that model won't
clear the columns hash.
* Change 'spec' Rake task to 'spec:unit'
* Require unit_spec_helper.rb in unit tests, not spec_helper.rb
* Re-namespace files in spec/support/unit under UnitTests
* Files in spec/support/unit/helpers no longer automatically add
themselves to RSpec - this happens in unit_spec_helper.rb
* Extract RecordWithDifferentErrorAttributeBuilder and
RecordValidatingConfirmationBuilder to separate files
* Move spec/shoulda to spec/unit_tests/shoulda
* Move spec/support/*.rb to spec/support/unit_tests/{helpers,matchers}
* Move spec_helper.rb to unit_spec_helper.rb