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Running Specs
Andrew Geweke edited this page Nov 26, 2013
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Because low_card_tables manipulates the data in an application's database, and therefore any bugs can have long-term, potentially catastrophic effects, it is very thoroughly tested. There are two different kinds of specs for it:
These live in spec/low_card_tables/unit, and test each class in isolation, independent of any other classes. To run them, simply do:
rspec spec/low_card_tables/unit
...and you're done. No database is necessary, since these are unit tests.
The unit specs alone, however, would miss a lot of very important design -- the interaction between the classes, which, after all, is what causes the entire system to behave correctly (or not behave correctly).
The system specs test the entire low_card_tables