Fixing test infrastructure

[stffn]

For Rails 2.x, testing works quite nicely: either call

$ rake

or specify the Rails version from gems to test against:

$ RAILS_VERSION=2.3.11 rake

However, with Rails 3, this gets a bit messy. I currently need to set up a dummy project (say, test-app) and execute the tests from inside a bundle exec, thus:

$ cd test-app
$ bundle exec bash
$ cd path-to-decl-auth
$ RAILS_ROOT=path-to-test-app rake

We really need to fix this...

[dgm]

I guess part of the problem is, what version of rails should this test against? Should we have a Gemfile present?

[dgm]

Against 3.2.3, I get:

cannot load such file -- initializer (LoadError) 

[dgm]

Suggestion: (Sorry for so many posts, I'm rambling as ideas come to me)

Use Bundler to specify several different groups, for different versions of rails...

[dgm]

This make the tests run for me in rails 3.2.3:

diff --git a/test/test_helper.rb b/test/test_helper.rb
index f9078ef..1b99ba7 100644
--- a/test/test_helper.rb
+++ b/test/test_helper.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ unless defined?(ActiveRecord)
   end

   unless defined?(Rails)  # needs to be explicit in Rails < 3
-    %w(action_pack action_controller active_record active_support initializer).each {|f| require f}
+    %w(action_pack action_controller/railtie active_record active_model rails/test_unit/railtie).each {|f| require f}
   end
 end

@@ -118,6 +118,14 @@ if Rails.version < "3"
     map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
   end
 else
+  module RbConfig
+    class Application < ::Rails::Application
+      # configuration here if needed
+      config.active_support.deprecation = :stderr
+    end
+  end
+
+  RbConfig::Application.initialize!
   #Rails::Application.routes.draw do
   Rails.application.routes.draw do
     match '/name/spaced_things(/:action)' => 'name/spaced_things'

I don't know yet what that does to other version of rails.

[stffn]

See comment on #112