Calling a Sinatra app instance method from TestCase

Question

I have an util method into a Sinatra application and I would like to tested from my TestCase.

The problem is that I don\'t know how to invoke i

Answer 1

The problem you are encountering is, that MyApp.new does not return an instance of MyApp but an instance of the middleware wrapping your App (usually Rack::Head or Sinatra::ShowExceptions). A good explanation can be found in the thread Sinatra Usage Question / Rack App.

The only solution I can think of is to change your instance method to a class method which can be called without the instance itself. As the instance of your App may be freshly instantiated for every request, an instance method probably doesn't have much advantages over a class method in your scenario.

Edit:

In the upcoming Sinatra 1.4 the initialization will change. Sinatra::Base.new will return a Sinatra::Wrapper instance, which exposes #settings and #helpers. This may help solve the problem of accessing Sinatra::Base instance methods. See the Sinatra Changelog for more information.