Thanks for catching that! Please let me know if that works for you, and if there’s any other issue that comes up.

And good question about grafting tests onto pre-existing rails models. For RSpec unit tests where you’re familiar with the inner-workings of the code, you’ll want to add in tests for each of the methods of your models, and then move onto functional/integration tests. If you’re new to the code, it often works better the other way around. Get a bird’s-eye view of the code by looking at its function and verifying the application as a whole, and work your way into the nitty-gritty with unit tests.

It’s an interesting question, I think I’ll have to follow up with a few posts on that.

Thanks for this tutorial. I’m almost there, but I’m getting this error when I try to run ‘rake spec:integration’

1)
NoMethodError in ‘People before(:all)’
undefined method `start’ for nil:NilClass
/home/matt/Projects/rspec_saucerc/spec/integration/people_spec.rb:13:in `block (2 levels) in ‘

Finished in 0.005840741 seconds

0 examples, 1 failure

I didn’t do the generate/plugin step. Instead I just did ‘gem install selenium-rails’. Here is my list of installed gems:

actionmailer (2.3.5)
actionpack (2.3.5)
activerecord (2.3.5)
activeresource (2.3.5)
activesupport (2.3.5)
gemcutter (0.5.0)
hoe (2.5.0)
json_pure (1.2.2)
mocha (0.9.8)
mysql (2.8.1)
rack (1.1.0, 1.0.1)
rails (2.3.5)
rake (0.8.7)
RedCloth (4.2.3)
rspec (1.3.0)
rspec-rails (1.3.2)
rubyforge (2.0.4)
rubygems-update (1.3.6)
Selenium (1.1.14)
selenium-client (1.2.18)
selenium-rails (0.0.3)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.5)
test-unit (1.2.3)

Sorry if I’m missing something obvious. I’m still getting started with all this. Also, if I already have several models, controllers, views, etc. created using the normal rails scaffold, what is the best approach to go back and add rspec tests?