The TestTempFileHelper::TempFileHelper class manages the creation and cleanup of temporary files in automated tests.

Downloads and API docs are available on the test_temp_file_helper RubyGems page. API documentation is written using YARD markup.

Contributed by the 18F team, part of the United States General Services Administration: https://18f.gsa.gov/

Rather than reimplement Pyfakefs in Ruby, in the short-term, I wrote this class to emulate Google's TEST_DATADIR and TEST_TMPDIR convention instead, so that I could test code that works with the file system.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'test_temp_file_helper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install test_temp_file_helper

Create a TempFileHelper in your test's setup method, and call TempFileHelper.teardown in your test's teardown method.

require 'minitest/autorun'
require 'test_temp_file_helper'

class MyTest < ::Minitest::Test
  def setup
    @temp_file_helper = TestTempFileHelper::TempFileHelper.new
  end

  def teardown
    @temp_file_helper.teardown
  end

  def test_something_that_handles_files
    dir_path = @temp_file_helper.mkdir(File.join('path', 'to', 'dir'))
    file_path = @temp_file_helper.mkfile(File.join('path', 'to', 'file'))
    ...
  end
end

The temporary directory containing all generated files and directories is set by the first of these items which is not nil:

1. the tmp_dir argument to TempFileHelper.new
2. the TEST_TMPDIR environment variable
3. Dir.mktmpdir

The path to the temporary directory itself can be accessed via TempFileHelper.tmpdir.

1. Fork the repo ( https://github.com/18F/test_temp_file_helper/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

Feel free to ping @mbland with any questions you may have, especially if the current documentation should've addressed your needs, but didn't.

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