first steps towards webrat testing for twitplot

test/integration/visiting_twitplot_test.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/../test_helper')
+
+class VisitingTwitplotTest < ActionController::IntegrationTest
+  # Replace this with your real tests.
+  test "the truth" do
+    visit '/'
+    assert_have_selector 'div#about'
+    assert_have_selector 'div#results'
+    assert_have_selector "form[action='/search']"
+    assert_have_selector "form input#location[name='location'][type='text'][value='Boulder, Co']"
+    assert_have_selector "form input#keyword[name='keyword'][type='text']"
+    assert_have_selector "form select#distance[name='distance']"
+    [10,25,50].each do |miles|
+      assert_have_selector "form select#distance option[value='#{miles}']:contains('#{miles}')"
+    end
+
+    assert_have_selector "form input[type='submit'][name='commit'][value='search']"
+
+    click_button 'search'
+    puts response_body
+  end
+end

test/test_helper.rb

@@ -1,31 +1,11 @@
 ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
 require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment")
 require 'test_help'
+require 'webrat'
+require 'webrat/selenium'
 
 class Test::Unit::TestCase
-  # Transactional fixtures accelerate your tests by wrapping each test method
-  # in a transaction that's rolled back on completion.  This ensures that the
-  # test database remains unchanged so your fixtures don't have to be reloaded
-  # between every test method.  Fewer database queries means faster tests.
-  #
-  # Read Mike Clark's excellent walkthrough at
-  #   http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2005/10/24#Rails10FastTesting
-  #
-  # Every Active Record database supports transactions except MyISAM tables
-  # in MySQL.  Turn off transactional fixtures in this case; however, if you
-  # don't care one way or the other, switching from MyISAM to InnoDB tables
-  # is recommended.
-  #
-  # The only drawback to using transactional fixtures is when you actually 
-  # need to test transactions.  Since your test is bracketed by a transaction,
-  # any transactions started in your code will be automatically rolled back.
   self.use_transactional_fixtures = true
-
-  # Instantiated fixtures are slow, but give you @david where otherwise you
-  # would need people(:david).  If you don't want to migrate your existing
-  # test cases which use the @david style and don't mind the speed hit (each
-  # instantiated fixtures translates to a database query per test method),
-  # then set this back to true.
   self.use_instantiated_fixtures  = false
 
   # Setup all fixtures in test/fixtures/*.(yml|csv) for all tests in alphabetical order.
@@ -36,3 +16,27 @@ class Test::Unit::TestCase
 
   # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
 end
+if ENV['SELENIUM']
+  module ActionController #:nodoc:
+    IntegrationTest.class_eval do
+      include Webrat::Selenium::Methods
+      include Webrat::Selenium::Matchers
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+Webrat.configure do |config|
+  if ENV['SELENIUM']
+    module ActionController #:nodoc:
+      IntegrationTest.class_eval do
+        include Webrat::Selenium::Methods
+        include Webrat::Selenium::Matchers
+      end
+    end
+    config.mode = :selenium
+  else
+    config.mode = :rails
+  end
+end
+
+