Rspec-rails: Work out testing story for ActionCable

[penelopezone]

We currently don't have one, so we should definitely work out what the story is.

[NullVoxPopuli]

I made this ruby client for action cable: https://github.com/NullVoxPopuli/action_cable_client
could it help with testing action cable?

[penelopezone]

Hi @NullVoxPopuli, thanks for the suggestion, but we're going to take RSpec in a slightly different direction to test with ActionCable 😄

[JonRowe]

Whats the official Rails line on this @samphippen ?

[penelopezone]

Waiting for https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/23211 to be merged before I start investigating.

[palkan]

Hi, @samphippen!

I've extracted rails/rails#23211 into a gem and added RSpec support too – https://github.com/palkan/action-cable-testing.

[palkan]

@samphippen @benoittgt

Hey, folks! It's been a while...

Since action-cable-testing has been merged into Rails 6.0, we think it's time to take care of RSpec part)

The gem already has RSpec support (built using the same structure as rspec-rails), so it's gonna be pretty easy to merge it.

The main question for now is whether we should use the RSpec 4.x branch or target the 3.x version?

[JonRowe]

TBH if you target 3.x it's going to be easy to cherry-pick it to 4.x, but it really depends on if we want to release this before 4.x, which is scheduled for release around rails-conf

[penelopezone]

the 3.xx series will likely not get rails 6.0 support, so you should target 4.xx

[JonRowe]

Ah if this is intended as an Rails 6.0 only feature then yes definitely just 4.x

[palkan]

if this is intended as an Rails 6.0 only feature

Yep, it's Rails 6+.

Ok, thanks guys; we'll provide a PR for 4.x.x.

[JonRowe]

We merged support for this, closing.