使用狼蛛测试Rails应用

Question

I'm using Tarantula to test a Rails app I'm developing. It works pretty well, but I'm getting some strange 404s.

After looking into it, Tarantula is following DELETE requests ( destroy actions on controllers) throughout my app when it tests. Since Tarantula gets the index action first (and seems to keep a list of unvisited URLs), it eventually tries to follow a link to a resource which it had deleted... and gets a 404. Tarantula is right that the URL doesn't exist anymore (because it deleted the resource itself). However, it's flagging it as an error -- that's hardly the behavior I would expect.

I'm basically just using the Rails scaffolding and this problem is happening. How do I prevent Tarantula doing this? (Or, is there a better way of specifying the links?)

Updates:

• Still searching, but I found a relevant thread here: http://github.com/relevance/tarantula/issues#issue/3
• Seems to be coming from relying on JS too much, in a way (see also http://thelucid.com/2010/03/15/rails-can-we-please-have-a-delete-action-by-default/ )

Answer 1

From what I know, this is expected to be fixed in a future update of Tarantula. (See also: http://github.com/relevance/tarantula/issues#issue/3 .) For now, I'm ignoring 404s that "look harmless."

UPDATE

I'm now doing "soft deletes" (just marking records as deleted), so this isn't a problem for me anymore.