EmberRoutes

This gem makes integration testing Rails-backed Ember apps a little easier.

Given a Rails project with an embedded Ember app, whether using ember-cli-rails or otherwise, you will likely want to run integration tests using Capybara.

Unfortunately, Ember's route definitions are tucked away in a router.js file, and are not available to the Ruby spec code.

EmberRoutes tries to address this by allowing you to express your Ember routes using a similar syntax, then generating corresponding path helpers and placing them within a PathHelpers module.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ember-routes'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ember-routes

To define your Ember application routes, call EmberRoutes.configure like so:

require 'ember_routes'

EmberRoutes.configure do |config|
  config.prefix = prefix # A string to prefix the path helper names.  Defaults to ''
  config.base_url = base_url # The base url for the application, it will prefix the paths. Defaults to ''
  config.routes do
    route 'foo', :path => '/foo' do
      route 'bar', :path => '/bar' do
        route 'show', :path => '/:id'
      end
    end
  end
end

If you're using Rails, the above configuration can be placed in it's own initializer such as config/initializers/ember_routes.rb or in the rails_helper file.

Running the configuration will generate the path helpers and place them within the EmberRails::PathHelpers module. You can them include them like so:

#spec/spec_helper

include EmberRails::PathHelpers

The above configuration will generate the following path helpers:

foo_path #/foo
foo_bar_path #/foo/bar
foo_bar_show_path #/foo/bar/:id

Note that paths that include parameters (defined using the colon notation) will insert the parameters into the path itself. For example, given the above configuration:

foo_bar_show_path(:id => 12, :sort => 'ASC')
#=> /foo/bar/12?sort=ASC

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/asseltine/ember-routes

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.