From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T23:38:07+09:00
Subject: Re: unit testing offline with mechanize

Adam Akhtar wrote:

> Although mechanize is designed to navigate around web pages online, is
> there a way to load up webpages saved to the harddrive for the purposes
> of quick unit testing. Constantly accessing online sources slows down
> the tests. I tried to simply type the file name instead of the url in
> agent.get("..") but it complains. I tried get_file and that didnt work
> either.

That sounds like the assumption you must serve a page through a web server just 
to unit test it.

Why not do what Rails tests do - call the same method a server would call to 
generate a page, then read it as a string and test it?

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   Phlip