Minitest::Filesystem

Adds assertions and expectations to check filesystem content in a communicative way.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'minitest-filesystem'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install minitest-filesystem

Once the gem is installed, just add this line to your test_helper.rb:

require 'minitest/filesystem'

Let's suppose the following filesystem structure exists:

• root_dir/
  • file_1
  • file_2
  • subdir_1/
    • subfile_1
    • subfile_2
    • subsubdir_1/
  • subdir_2/
  • subdir_3/
    • link_1
    • link_2, '../../file_1'

You can check if root_dir contains a specific structure:

assert_contains_filesystem("root_dir") do
  file "file_1"
  dir "subdir_1" do
    file "subfile_1"
  end
  dir "subdir_2"
  dir "subdir_3" do
    link "link_1"
  end
end

or, if you prefer the expectation style:

filesystem {
  file "file_1"
  dir "subdir_1" do
    file "subfile_1"
  end
  dir "subdir_2"
  dir "subdir_3" do
    link "link_1"
  end
}.must_exist_within "root_dir"

Note that the match need not to be exact (i.e. there can be other files and directories inside root_dir that the matcher won't care about).

As a nicety, some custom assertions/matchers are provided to make your test suites look better. They're almost just syntactic sugar around the methods provided by File, Dir et al, but allow for improved code readability. So, for example, instead of writing

assert File.exists? "/a/file"

you can write

assert_exists "/a/file"

or, even better

"/a/file".must_exist

Assertions

• assert_exists: test whether a specific path exists (no matter if file, dir, symlink)
• refute_exists: test whether a specific path doesn't exist (no matter if file, dir, symlink)

Expectations

The meaning of the following expectation is the same as their assertive counterpart:

• must_exist
• wont_exist

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

• Added assert_exists, refute_exists, must_exist, wont_exist
• Refactored previous test code to lighter syntax

• Minor refactorings and project infrastructure updates.

• Add support for testing symbolic links

• Remove CamelCase naming.

• Add support for Ruby 1.8.

• Refactor existing code
• Add more tests around assertion
• Infect must_exist_within expectation

• Extract assertion and matcher from current projects