Question

I want to write a test using Rspec and Capybara.

I have a Post model and I want to add a draft attribute to it. If the user checks that field the post is saved as draft (draft = true). Only posts that have he attribute draft = false will show in the post index page. Posts with draft = true will only show in the page of the user who created that post.

I’ve never made a Rspec + Capybara test in my life. So I was wondering if someone could tell me how to start or give me an example.
Thanks in advance!

schema.rb:

 create_table "posts", :force => true do |t|
    t.string   "title"
    t.string   "content"
    t.integer  "user_id"
    t.datetime "created_at",                               :null => false
    t.datetime "updated_at",                               :null => false
    t.integer  "comments_count",        :default => 0,     :null => false
    t.datetime "published_at"
    t.boolean  "draft",                 :default => false
  end

(By the way, do I need to post the model, controller or view pages?)

Answer 1

To add on to new2ruby’s answer you can also use the Feature/Scenario aliases provided by capybara in your integration tests.

I find it reads nicely:

require 'spec_helper'

feature 'Visitor views posts' do
    scenario 'shows completed posts' do 
        post = FactoryGirl.create(post)
        visit posts_path

        page.should have_content(post.title)
    end

    scenario 'does not show drafts' do
        draft = FactoryGirl.create(draft)
        visit posts_path

        page.should_not have_content(draft.title)
    end
end

I recently wrote a “getting started” blog post on using RSpec with Capybara for integration tests. Let me know if you have any questions on getting your codebase set up.