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<p class="last">Very leaky!
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<p>Call directly into controller
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The main functionality is in a TestCase subclass
Has some XML/HTML inspection
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<div><a class="reference external" href="http://www.anarchogeek.com/articles/2007/9/16/rails-where-the-boundries-are-pushed">http://www.anarchogeek.com/articles/2007/9/16/rails-where-the-boundries-are-pushed</a>
This is not a good thing
Mocks all over the place :(</div></blockquote>
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