testing | Daniel P. Clark

May 12, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Fake a SMTP Server with Python for Rails Testing

So I’ve been in the process of writing an integration test to verify the flow of registration through some unique conditions. One thing I ran into while writing my Rails test was this error. Connection refused – connect(2) for nil port 25 After looking around at documentation on what to do for testing it seemed…

April 30, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Have problems testing methods that query ActiveRecord?

Sometimes you’ll run into a problem that won’t reveal an answer. I ran into a problem I had come across before in that past to which I knew I hadn’t really solved. I have a custom method that looks up an ActiveRecord query and makes a change. But both times I’ve tried to test the…