Utah Ruby Users Group: March Meeting (RJS Templates and Integration Tests in Rails) March 22, 2006

Jamis Buck will be presenting on Rails RJS templates, and will probably also talk some about the new integration testing support. RJS templates are one of the hottest new features that will be available in the next Rails release. They allow you to easily (and I mean easily) specify complex responses to Ajax requests, like ?insert new content here and here, highlight this element, and change the CSS class of this other element.? RJS templates are destined to change the way we do AJAX. Seriously.

Integration tests allow you to script broad story-level scenarios and ensure that your application behaves. They are basically functional tests taken to the next level. They test everything, including the dispatcher, routing, and sessions (none of which are tested by the functional tests).