Episode #487 – August 8th, 2014

Beautiful API documentation, deprecating paths in Rails mailers, taking RubySteps, meeting Starboard, and the new Heroku Button

Testing Code in a Rails Initializer

July 23, 2013

Rails prides itself on sane defaults, but also provides hooks for customizing the framework by providing Ruby blocks in your configuration files. Most of this code begins and ends its life simply and innocuously. Sometimes, however, it grows. Maybe it’s only 3 or 4 lines, but chances are they define important behavior.

Pretty soon, you’re going to want some tests. But while testing models and controllers is a well-established practice, how do you test code that’s tucked away in an initializer? Is there such thing as an initializer test?

No, not really. But that’s ok. Configuration or DSL-style code can trick us into forgetting that we have the full arsenal of Ruby and OO practices at our disposal. Let’s take a look at a common idiom found in initialization code and how we might write a test for it.

Configuring Asset Hosts

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