Rspec rails TDD

Question

What is the best way to configure the rspec with selenium and how to setup test db.

I new in TDD and i am trying to configure rspec by adding the rspec gem in gemfile like

gem 'rspec'
gem 'selenium'

and trying to setup DB like

test:
     db_name: xyz

but I am stuck as it didn't run successfully. Please guide either I am doing the stuff in right way or have some issues.

Answer 1

Lets try this solution manual add these gems in your GemFile

gem 'capybara'
gem 'rspec-rails'
gem 'wombat'
gem 'capybara-webkit'
gem 'selenium-webdriver', '2.35.0'

and after that run bundle and to create test envoirment do something like that in your database.yml

defaults: &defaults
  adapter: mysql2
  host: localhost
  username: root
  password: password

test:
  <<: *defaults
  database: test_db

and then run

 rails generate rspec:install 

this will generate these files.

 .rspec
 spec/spec_helper.rb
 spec/rails_helper.rb  

and to run the test cases use this command.

 bundle exec rspec

include these in rspec_helper

 require 'capybara'
 require 'capybara/dsl'
 require 'debugger'

and these in rails_helper

   config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
   config.include Capybara::DSL

then

   RAILS_ENV=test rake db:create, db:migrate

or RAILS_ENV=test rake db:schema:load

Hopefully this solved your problem.