Setup

For ruby 1.9, rspec, rdoc, rack-test, bundler using the :test mode

Gemfile

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'bundler' #, '~> 1.0.18'
gem 'ramaze'

# Add dependencies to develop your gem here.
# Include everything needed to run rake, tests, features, etc.
group :development do
  gem 'rake'
  gem 'rspec' #, '~> 2.6.0'
  gem 'bundler' #, '~> 1.0.18'
  gem 'simplecov' #, '>= 0'
  gem 'rdoc' #, '~> 3.9.4'
end

Rakefile

# encoding: utf-8

APP_NAME='the-greatest-app-ever'

# use bundler to make sure all the dependencies are met for both the app and the development environment.
require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'
begin
  Bundler.setup(:default, :development)
rescue Bundler::BundlerError => e
  $stderr.puts e.message
  $stderr.puts "Run `bundle install` to install missing gems"
  exit e.status_code
end

# notice that the bunder setup had to be before bringing in rake
require 'rake'

# standard rspec tasks.  Assumes specs will be under the ./spec directory and are named *_spec.rb
require 'rspec/core'
require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec) do |spec|
  spec.pattern = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
end

RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:rcov) do |spec|
  spec.pattern = 'spec/**/*_spec.rb'
  spec.rcov = true
end

# set the default task to run the rspecs
task :default => :spec

# Plain Jane rdoc task except will try to read ./VERSION file that should have 
# only one line and that line should contain the application's version.
require 'rdoc/task'
Rake::RDocTask.new do |rdoc|
  version = File.exist?('VERSION') ? File.read('VERSION').strip : ""

  rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
  rdoc.title = "#{APP_NAME} #{version}"
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README*')
  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/**/*.rb')
end

spec_helper.rb

# ruby 1.9 code coverage
require 'simplecov'
SimpleCov.start

# using bundler
require "rubygems"
require "bundler/setup"

# spec dependencies
require "rack"
require "rack/test"
require "rspec"
require 'json'
require 'ramaze'

# using the :test mode
ENV['Ramaze.options.mode'] = :test.to_s

# bring in your ramaze app
require_relative('../app')

Ramaze::Log.level = Logger::DEBUG

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.mock_with :rspec
  config.include Rack::Test::Methods

  def app
    Ramaze.setup_dependencies
    Rack::Lint.new(Ramaze.middleware)
  end
end

example_spec.rb using rack-test

require 'spec_helper'

describe("Test RESTfulController") do
  before :all do
    Ramaze::Current.session = Rack::Test::Session.new(Rack::MockSession.new(app))
    @session = Ramaze::Current.session
  end

  it "should handle set replace" do
    @session.header 'Accept', 'application/json'
    resp = @session.put '/test'
    resp.status.should == 200
    resp.header['Content-Type'].should == 'application/json'
    resp_data = JSON.parse(resp.body)
    resp_data['action'].should == 'replace-set'
    resp_data['args'].should be_empty
    resp_data['error'].should be_nil
    resp_data['error_backtrace'].should be_nil
  end
end