Process Jobs Inline when Running Acceptance Tests

Process Jobs Inline when Running Acceptance Tests

January 14, 2013 jdclayton rails test-driven development Process Jobs Inline when Running Acceptance Tests Web apps often move long-running processes (such as delivering email) out of the request/response cycle into a queue of background jobs. A worker process then picks up those jobs from the queue and runs them in the background. In acceptance tests, it’s desirable to run those background jobs immediately, skipping the queueing component, to avoid writing custom code to work the jobs off. Configure RSpec request specs with a custom run_background_jobs_immediately method: RSpec.configure do |config| # if you're using Capybara 1.x, :feature should be replaced with :request config.around(:each, type: :feature) do |example| run_background_jobs_immediately do example.run end end config.include BackgroundJobs end A Delayed::Job implementation of the method: # spec/support/back...

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