From: Thomas Preymesser <thopre@...>
Date: 2008-12-25T09:34:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Testing Data Scrapes

2008/12/25 Michael Boutros <me@michaelboutros.com>:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm here not for code help, but more for some opinions. At the moment
> I'm writing a library to interact with Snipt. However, I have no idea
> how to test it. I don't want to include my username and password in the
> tests,

I'm doing it this way:

 # Creates a new Google spreadsheet object.
  def initialize(spreadsheetkey,user=nil,password=nil)
    @filename = spreadsheetkey
    @spreadsheetkey = spreadsheetkey
    @user = user
    @password = password
    unless user
      user = ENV['GOOGLE_MAIL']
    end
    unless password
      password = ENV['GOOGLE_PASSWORD']
    end

so, if i do not provide the username and password from the test script
it will be taken from environment variables.

-Thomas

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