Example usage of Fixture

fixture_example.rb

#To see the fixtures applied in a practical example, suppose we want to test a chat's application that displays some messages. For this #functionality we write the following spec:

#spec/views/chats/show.html.erb_spec.rb
describe "views/chats/show.html.erb" do
fixture :chats, :messages

before(:each) do
@chat = chats(:myChat)
render "/chats/show.html.erb"
end

it "should render attributes in paragraph" do
response.should have_text(/MyString/)
end

it "should render all messages for the chat" do
response.should have_tag("tr>td", "Hello!", 1)
response.should have_tag("tr>td", "How are you?", 1)
response.should have_tag("tr>td", "Excellent!", 1)
end

end

#With these fixtures:

#spec/fixtures/chats.yaml
myChat:
name: MyString
id: 1

#spec/fixtures/messages.yaml
one:
data: Hello
chat_id: 1
version: 1
user_id: 1

two:
data: How are you?
chat_id: 1
version: 2
user_id: 1
three:
data: Excellent!
chat_id: 1
version: 3
user_id: 1