Request: Can we include unit testing skeletons with recipe generators?

[brandocorp]

I was thinking it might be useful to add the generation of unit test files for their associated cookbook files. If a person was to generate a recipe named 'foo', they would get the recipe file along with its associated spec file like so:

Compiling Cookbooks...
Recipe: code_generator::recipe
  * template[/opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/recipes/foobar.rb] action create
    - create new file /opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/recipes/foobar.rb
    - update content in file /opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/recipes/foobar.rb from none to e3b0c4
    (diff output suppressed by config)
 * template[/opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/spec/recipes/foobar_spec.rb] action create
    - create new file /opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/spec/recipes/foobar.rb
    - update content in file /opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/spec/recipes/foobar.rb from none to e3b0c4
    (diff output suppressed by config)

This would include modifying the chef generate cookbook command to add the spec/recipes folder and a default_spec.rb.

[jreslock]

+1 to @brandocorp's idea. Having just a basic unit test is helpful,
especially for n00b rubyists/chefs.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:24 PM, brandocorp notifications@github.com wrote:

I was thinking it might be useful to add the generation of unit test files
for their associated cookbook files. If a person was to generate a recipe
named 'foo', they would get the recipe file along with its associated spec
file like so:

Compiling Cookbooks...
Recipe: code_generator::recipe

• template[/opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/recipes/foobar.rb] action create
  • create new file /opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/recipes/foobar.rb
  • update content in file /opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/recipes/foobar.rb from none to e3b0c4
    (diff output suppressed by config)
  • template[/opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/spec/recipes/foobar_spec.rb] action create

- create new file /opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/spec/recipes/foobar.rb
- update content in file /opt/working/chef/cookbooks/foobar/spec/recipes/foobar.rb from none to e3b0c4
(diff output suppressed by config)

This would include modifying the chef generate cookbook command to add
the spec/recipes folder and a default_spec.rb.

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[sethvargo]

Knife-spec is good example to go off of

[brandocorp]

I have opened #153 for this issue

[nathenharvey]

This was released in version 0.3.6 as part of #266