Rspec test for a helper in my case

Question

I am developing a Rails app. I have a helper under app/helpers/ , that's the db_data_helper.rb .

The methods in this db_data_helper are mainly used to execute sql dump file to load data to database. And these methods in the helper are used in some Rake task.

Some sample code of the helper:

db_data_helper.rb:

module DbDataHelper

  def self.load_data
       # CODE TO EXECUTE SQL dump files
  end
  ...
  ...
end

Now, I would like to test this helper in Rspec but I am not sure how to implement the test in Rspec for a helper like this. Could some one help me on this?

Answer 1

I'd simply create a class in my spec file:

class DummyDbDataHelper
  extend DbDataHelper
end

describe DummyDbDataHelper do
  it "tests the load_data method" do
    DummyDbDataHelper.load_data.should ...
  end
end