action-cable-testing does not work with rspec-rails 4.0 and rails 5

[syakovyn]

The issue happens due to the following check in action_cable/testing/rspec.rb: if RSpec::Rails::FeatureCheck.respond_to?(:has_action_cable_testing?). It does not account for a fact that though the method is present it still returns false for Rails 5.

I suggest using if RSpec::Rails::FeatureCheck.respond_to?(:has_action_cable_testing?) && RSpec::Rails::FeatureCheck.has_action_cable_testing? instead.

[syakovyn]

Looks like my suggestion does not help :(

[syakovyn]

I finally solved the issue by doing the following in rails_spec.rb:

module RSpec::Rails::FeatureCheck
  module_function

  def has_action_cable_testing?
    true
  end
end
require 'rspec/rails'

and completely removing require 'action_cable/testing/rspec' from that file while keeping action-cable-testing in Gemfile to provide the missing piece of testing functionality.

[palkan]

Seems that feature check in rspec-rails is checking the Rails version: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/blob/d810df59bb3b4ea7f3a2a0d0b169f2f2b9d390ac/lib/rspec/rails/feature_check.rb#L27

I think, that's correct: event though rspec-rails implementation is extracted from this gem, they could go out of sync. So, it's better to rely on the gem in Rails 5 even with the latest rspec-rails.

What was the problem with if RSpec::Rails::FeatureCheck.respond_to?(:has_action_cable_testing?) && RSpec::Rails::FeatureCheck.has_action_cable_testing? patch?

[syakovyn]

@palkan, it looks like require "rspec/rails" from action_cable/testing/rspec causes to load rspec/rails/example/channel_example_group.rb from rspec-rails before has_action_cable_testing? get a chance to be redefined to return true resulting in RSpec::Rails::ChannelExampleGroup being empty. RSpec::Rails::ChannelExampleGroup is not loaded from action-cable-testing as it was already loaded from rspec-rails with an incomplete definition.

The workaround I use seems right to me. It tells rspec-rails to assume ActionCable testing is present and action-cable-testing gem is needed indirectly to provide the missing piece of functionality that was extracted into ActionCable 6. The other part is already in rspec-rails.

[alecdotninja]

I had trouble getting the sample from @syakovyn to work in my case. If I didn't require "rspec/rails" before the monkey patch, RSpec::Rails::FeatureCheck was not defined. On the other hand, if I required it after the money patch, not all the methods were defined.

This is the solution that seems to be working for me:

require "action_cable/testing"
require "rspec/rails/feature_check"

RSpec::Rails::FeatureCheck.module_eval do
  module_function

  def has_action_cable_testing?
    true
  end
end

require "rspec/rails"