I am setting up a new Laravel project and integrating PHPSpec. I am having trouble finding a good working example of the phpspec.yml file that would work neatly with Laravel. In a similar way to RSpec in Rails.
My desired folder structure would be as follows
spec/
models/
controllers/
app/
models/
controllers/
My phpspec.yml currently looks like this:
suites:
controller_suite:
namespace: Controller
spec_path: 'spec/controllers'
src_path: 'app/controllers'
model_suite:
namespace: Model
spec_path: 'spec/models'
src_path: 'app/models'
I copied my Model related tests in the spec/models folder, but when I 'phpspec run' it does not run any of them. I also realise that the namespace is not 'Model' and 'Controller' in Laravel, perhaps more like Eloquent and BaseController..
I am also using this extension: https://github.com/BenConstable/phpspec-laravel
I'm not sure how to set this up and cannot find any working examples. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Advice founbd on another forum from Jeffrey Way:
You can test your controllers with Behat. PHPSpec isn't a substitute for it (or Codeception).
UPDATE:
I've since decided to use Codeception instead as it seems to integrate neatly into Laravel and widely used.
Kindly answered via email from Ben Constable :
Setting up PHPSpec with Laravel with its default file layout is pretty difficult, and I haven’t yet figured out how to do it. However, you can get it working with a slightly different layout, like:
- app - Controllers - MyController.php - Models - MyModel.php - spec - Controllers - MyControllerSpec.php - Models - MyModelSpec.php
then, in your
phpspec.yml
you’d have:extensions: - PhpSpec\Laravel\Extension\LaravelExtension suites: laravel_controller_suite: namespace: Controllers src_path: app laravel_model_suite: namespace: Models src_path: app laravel_extension: testing_environment: 'testing'
and finally, you’d need to modify your
composer.json
to includeapp/
in the autoload class map. Your models, controllers and whatever would then be namespaced, like:<?php namespace Controllers; use Controller; class MyController extends Controller {}
That should sort you out. Just as an aside, when I’ve been making Laravel projects I’ve been putting everything in
app/src/MyVendor/MyNamespace/Controllers
etc, which I prefer as a layout (keeps the source away from the config and other files, and is similar to the layout of Laravel Packages).In the future, I will try and look into it and see if I can get PHPSpec working with the default Laravel layout - I’ll update the project on GitHub if/when I do.
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