OopRailsServer

Rails makes it easy enough to write test code or RSpec that runs within Rails. However, what’s much, much harder is testing code (like a RubyGem) that augments Rails itself, particularly if you want that code to be compatible with multiple versions of Rails. Often people will simply check in a full Rails tree (i.e., that which is generated by rails new), but that fixes you to an exact version of Rails and is difficult to upgrade or manipulate.

OopRailsServer provides a completely different, much cleaner solution: it provides an object, OopRailsServer::RailsServer. This object knows how to:

• Install any version of Rails from scratch, completely cleanly (i.e., the equivalent of gem install rails -v=4.2.0);
• Use that version of Rails to create a new Rails installation (i.e., rails _4.2.0_ new);
• Add any lines you want to the resulting Rails Gemfile, and run bundle install (so that any gems you want — for example, the gem you’re testing — are available to that Rails installation);
• Populate that installation by using one or more "template directories" that you provide — each template directory is laid out exactly like a standard Rails tree (but need contain only files you actually want to provide), and will overwrite the corresponding files in the Rails tree
• Spin up a new Rails server, running on a randomly-assigned port, in that Rails installation;
• Fetch arbitrary URLs from that Rails server on your command;
• When it’s all done, safely (and reliably) terminate that server.

As of this writing, this gem is not fully productized: while it works reliably, there is insufficient documentation to easily use it yourself. It is, however, very reliable: it is used as the backbone of the test suites for fortitude, parcels, and the backbone of the real work in rails_view_benchmarks.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'oop_rails_server'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install oop_rails_server

TODO: Write usage instructions here

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/oop_rails_server/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request