Unit Testing a rails 2.3.5 plugin
- by brad
I'm writing a new plugin for a rails 2.3.5 app.  I've included an app directory (which makes it an engine) so i can easily load some extra routes.  Not sure if that affects anything.  Anyway, in the test directory i have two files: test_helper.rb and my_plugin_test.rb
These files were generated automatically using script/generate plugin my_plugin
When I go to vendor/plugins/my_plugin directory and run rake test they don't seem to run.
I get the following console output:
(in /Users/me/Repos/my_app/source/trunk/vendor/plugins/my_plugin)
/Users/me/.rvm/rubies/jruby-1.4.0/bin/jruby -I"lib:lib:test" "/Users/me/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.4.0/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/my_plugin_test.rb" 
So it obviously sees my test file, but none of the tests inside get run, I just get back to my console prompt.  What am I missing here?  I figured the generated code would work out of the box
Here are the two files
test_helper.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'active_support'
require 'active_support/test_case'
my_plugin_test.rb
require 'test_helper'
class MyPluginTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  # Replace this with your real tests.
  test "the truth" do
    assert true
  end
  test "Factories are supported" do
    assert_not_nil Factory
  end
end
File structure
vendor
 - plugins
   - my_plugin
     - app
     - config
       - routes.rb
     - generators
       - my_plugin
          - some generator files.rb
     - lib
       - my_plugin.rb
       - my_plugin
         - my_plugin_lib_file.rb
     - rails
       - init.rb
     - Rakefile
     - tasks
       - my_plugin_tasks.rake
     - test
       - test_helper.rb
       - my_plugin_test.rb