Notes: 2015 11 30

Writing a test for the events controller index action:

Preliminary:

• Make make_event method (previously in applications controller test) accessible to all controller tests by adding it to the ActiveSupport::TestCase class in the test helper file
• Also move any methods that are not assertions from the Minitest::Assertions module to the ActiveSupport::TestCase class (for better code organization)

Actual test:

[Add it to events_controller_test.rb]

• Give it a name
• Assign values to two variables for different events. Make one an approved, the other one an unapproved event (using a modified version of the make_event method that now has default values for fields name and approved)
• Simulate a get request for the index view
• Make assertions: 1.) that there is exactly one h3 element in the view that contains the name of the approved event as its text 2.) that there are exactly 0 h3 element in the view that contains the name of the unapproved event as its text

Note: the assertions were a bit difficult because we passed wrong things to make_event at first. We only realized that after we had already switched to not using actual assertions but css_select instead. We could try to refactor this using actual assertions :)