[chef] Re: Re: Chefspec link-matcher problem

[Mike < >]

Ranjib: that looks a lot more complicated than most asserts should be.

This commit [1] added support for link resources. Here's some syntax
examples and assertions:
https://github.com/acrmp/chefspec/blob/master/spec/chefspec/matchers/link_spec.rb#L7-L16

[1]: 
https://github.com/jamesdburgess/chefspec/commit/350936575c3d9bd89385408c3786277f026122f2

-M

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Ranjib Dey 
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> expect(chef_run.link('/tmp/tmp')).to_not be_nil
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> so you are checking that there a link resource present with name /tmp/tmp
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> to check the `to` attribute
> expect(chef_run.link('/tmp/tmp').to).to eq('/foo/abr')
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> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Arnold Krille 
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>> Hi,
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>> after quite some changes to adopt the munin-cookbook to our needs, I am
>> coming back to checking my stuff with rspec/chefspec.
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>> And especially I want to check that the recipe creates the links for
>> the munin-plugins as needed (depending on other factors like recipes on
>> the own node).
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>> But I somehow fail to test that with chefspec. My very minimal
>> test-case is:
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>> = recipe "munin::plugin_test":
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>> link '/tmp/tmp' do
>>   to '/bin/bash'
>>   action 'create'
>> end
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>> ====
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>> = spec-file:
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>> describe 'munin::plugin_test' do
>>   it "should create a link for a plugin" do
>>     chef_run = ChefSpec::ChefRunner.new()
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>>     chef_run.converge 'munin::plugin_test'
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>>     chef_run.link '/tmp/tmp'
>>     chef_run.link '/completely fake'
>>   end
>> end
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>> ====
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>> And altough the last test should be false, chefspec doesn't complain at
>> all. I also tried to write it as:
>>   chef_run.should link_to '/tmp/tmp'
>> but that gives errors that there is no method 'to' on 'link'...
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>> I am using chefspec 1.3.1 and just updated all the local gems (inside
>> the used rbenv).
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>> What am I doing wrong? Can anyone point me to a working example how to
>> check filesystem-links with chefspec?
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>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Arnold
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