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• There's little logic in my views anyway, the current app is Flex front end to Rails resources.
• Anything that's annoying, I move out of my way by generating with some ruby scripts (for example: creating the file that lists all the test cases). -- more on this later
• Anonymous objects in flex have been 'good enough' stubs

public function testLimitSortOrderCriteriaXml():void {
    var smartListCriteria:* = new SmartListCriteria();
    smartListCriteria.addLimitCriteria({order:"an order"});
    assertEquals("an order", smartListCriteria.toXml().sort.order);
}

public function testLimitSortFieldCriteriaXml():void {
    var smartListCriteria:* = new SmartListCriteria();
    smartListCriteria.addLimitCriteria({field:"a field"});
    assertEquals("a field", smartListCriteria.toXml().sort.field);
}

desc "Generate test files"
task :generate_tests do
  tests = Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../test/flex/tests/**/*Test.as"].each do |file_path|
    file_path = File.expand_path(file_path)
    package = File.basename(File.dirname(file_path))
    emit_file_path = (File.dirname(file_path) + "/" + File.basename(file_path, ".as") + "Emit.as").gsub(/tests/,"generated_tests")
    File.open(emit_file_path, "w") do |file|
      file << <<-eot
          package generated_tests.#{package} {

          import flexunit.framework.TestCase;
          import flexunit.framework.TestSuite;
          import uk.co.company.utils.*;
          import uk.co.company.smartLists.*;
          import mx.controls.*;

          public class #{File.basename(emit_file_path,".as")} extends TestCase {

              #{File.readlines(file_path)}
          }
      }
      eot
    end
  end
end