Programming Phoenix 1.4

Communicating with a Test Channel

Let’s see how easy it is to test our VideoChannel features. Our plan is simple. We’re going to set up some data to share across our tests and then sign the user in within our setup block. Then, we can write some independent tests against that live connection.

First we’ll need a few helper functions to make it easier to create users and videos. Make the file test/support/test_helpers.ex look like this:

testing_otp/listings/rumbl_umbrella/apps/rumbl_web/test/support/test_helpers.ex

defmodule RumblWeb.TestHelpers do

  defp default_user() do
    %{
      name: "Some User",
      username: "user#{System.unique_integer([:positive])}",
      password: "supersecret"
    }
  end

  def insert_user(attrs ...