Lindo testing helper gets some love

Lindo helps you write and verify Rails functional and integration tests by opening the HTTP response body in the default browser for inspection. This can be a real time-saver when you’re trying to figure out why your assert_select or have_tag calls aren’t passing.

In its initial version, Lindo assumed that your app was running at localhost:3000 (a fair assumption given the prevalence of Mongrel last year). Now that Passenger is on the scene, something better needed to be done. The reliance on a running app server was a disadvantage to begin with. Now Lindo doesn’t require anything to be running. It dumps the HTML to disk, fixes any relative asset URLs, and opens the file using your default browser.

Once you’ve written your first test with the assistance of Lindo, you won’t want to go back!

Lindo was developed by my company, Adeptware, and can be pulled from GitHub. I’ve also posted a brief introduction to Lindo and some basic installation instructions.