shoulda-context¶ ↑

Official Documentation

Shoulda’s contexts make it easy to write understandable and maintainable tests for Test::Unit. It’s fully compatible with your existing tests in Test::Unit, and requires no retooling to use.

Refer to the shoulda gem if you want to know more about using shoulda with Rails or RSpec.

Contexts¶ ↑

Instead of writing Ruby methods with lots_of_underscores, shoulda-context adds context, setup, and should blocks…

class CalculatorTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  context "a calculator" do
    setup do
      @calculator = Calculator.new
    end

    should "add two numbers for the sum" do
      assert_equal 4, @calculator.sum(2, 2)
    end

    should "multiply two numbers for the product" do
      assert_equal 10, @calculator.product(2, 5)
    end
  end
end

… which combine to produce the following test methods:

"test: A User instance should return its full name."
"test: A User instance with a profile should return true when sent #has_profile?."

Assertions¶ ↑

It also has two additional Test::Unit assertions for working with Ruby’s Array:

assert_same_elements([:a, :b, :c], [:c, :a, :b])
assert_contains(['a', '1'], /\d/)
assert_contains(['a', '1'], 'a')

Credits¶ ↑

Shoulda is maintained and funded by thoughtbot. Thank you to all the contributors.

License¶ ↑

Shoulda is Copyright © 2006-2010 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the MIT-LICENSE file.