Rails acceptance tests - run Foreman

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My application runs properly using Faye, Redis, Resque and other services, that I am starting every time with Foreman. Now I am writing acceptance tests with Capybara+RSpec, and I wonder how I could start Foreman (or even Faye alone) with Capybara in spec_helper to test live features.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '12 at 12:19

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One option is to not depend on these services in your tests. I know redis and resque have "mock" counterparts that behave like these services without actually needing to run them. Some services might not have a "mock" version (I can't find one for Faye), so you may just need to run them in the background.

answered Aug 08 '12 at 12:19

Peter Brown

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Thanks for answer, I need to run only faye for now, but it need to be started with acceptance tests, not manually, is there option how to do this in spec_helper? – Rustam Gasanov Aug 08 '12 at 12:27
You can execute system commends from ruby using either backticks (\`start service\`) or `%x[start service]`. I would create a rake task that starts the service and then runs all your specs, and stops the service at the end. – Peter Brown Aug 08 '12 at 12:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '12 at 06:55

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if you are using jenkins as the CI server, you can start the foreman before rspec started.

answered Oct 16 '12 at 06:55

lidaobing

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Rails acceptance tests - run Foreman

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