A Reusable Builder Class for Ruby Testing

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Published on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:50:05 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/23 10:03 UTC
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My last post was about a class for building test data objects in C#. This post describes the same tool, but implemented in Ruby. The C# version was written first but I originally came up with the solution in my head using Ruby, and then I translated it to C#. The Ruby version was easier to write and is easier to use thanks to Ruby’s dynamic nature making generics unnecessary.

Here are my example domain classes:

class Person
	attr_accessor :name, :age
	
	def initialize(name, age)
		@name = name
		@age = age
	end
	
end

class Property
	attr_accessor :street, :manager
	
	def initialize(street, manager)
		@street = street
		@manager = manager
	end
end

and the test class showing what the builder does:

class Test_Builder < Test::Unit::TestCase
	
	def setup
		@build = Builder.new	
		@build.configure({ 
			Property => lambda { Property.new '127 Creek St', @build.a(Person) },
			Person => lambda { Person.new 'Liam', 26 }			
		})
	end
	
	def test_create
		assert_not_nil @build
	end
	
	def test_can_get_a_person
		@person = @build.a(Person)
		assert_not_nil @person
		assert_equal 'Liam', @person.name
		assert_equal 26, @person.age
	end
	
	def test_can_get_a_modified_person
		@person = @build.a Person do |person|
			person.age = 999
		end
		assert_not_nil @person
		assert_equal 'Liam', @person.name
		assert_equal 999, @person.age
	end
	
	def test_can_get_a_different_type_that_depends_on_a_type_that_has_not_been_configured_yet
		@my_place = @build.a(Property)
		assert_not_nil @my_place
		assert_equal '127 Creek St', @my_place.street
		assert_equal @build.a(Person).name, @my_place.manager.name
	end
end

Finally, the implementation of Builder:

class Builder

	# defaults is a hash of Class => creation lambda
	def configure defaults
		@defaults = defaults
	end
	
	def a(klass)
		temp = @defaults[klass].call()
		yield temp if block_given?
		temp
	end

end

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