Moving all the functional tests to the Rails 2 way, which uses less code by having an additional sub-class to take care of the duplicate code in every test. There is a bug in rails 2.0.2, which means that super doesn't get called in the setup method in the functional tests. This is fixed in Rails 2.1.2, thus a version bump should really be done.

test/functional/api_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,16 +1,11 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'api_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class ApiController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class ApiControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class ApiControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
   
   def setup
-    @controller = ApiController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
+    super
     @badbigbbox = %w{ -0.1,-0.1,1.1,1.1  10,10,11,11 }
     @badmalformedbbox = %w{ -0.1  hello 
     10N2W10.1N2.1W }

test/functional/browse_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,19 +1,8 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'browse_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class BrowseController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-  class BrowseControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class BrowseControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
-  
-
-
-  def setup
-    @controller = BrowseController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
 
   def basic_authorization(user, pass)
     @request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic %s" % Base64.encode64("#{user}:#{pass}")

test/functional/changeset_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,19 +1,8 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'changeset_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class ChangesetController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-  class ChangesetControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class ChangesetControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
-  
-
-
-  def setup
-    @controller = ChangesetController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
 
   def basic_authorization(user, pass)
     @request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic %s" % Base64.encode64("#{user}:#{pass}")

test/functional/geocoder_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'geocoder_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class GeocoderController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class GeocoderControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
-  def setup
-    @controller = GeocoderController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
+class GeocoderControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
 
   # Replace this with your real tests.
   def test_truth

test/functional/message_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'message_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class MessageController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class MessageControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
-  def setup
-    @controller = MessageController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
+class MessageControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
 
   # Replace this with your real tests.
   def test_truth

test/functional/node_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,18 +1,9 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'node_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class NodeController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class NodeControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class NodeControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
 
-  def setup
-    @controller = NodeController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
-
   def test_create
     # cannot read password from fixture as it is stored as MD5 digest
     basic_authorization(users(:normal_user).email, "test");

test/functional/old_node_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,18 +1,9 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'old_node_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class OldNodeController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class OldNodeControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class OldNodeControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
 
-  def setup
-    @controller = OldNodeController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
-
   #
   # TODO: test history
   #

test/functional/old_relation_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,22 +1,12 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'old_relation_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-#class OldRelationController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class OldRelationControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class OldRelationControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
 
-  def setup
-    @controller = OldRelationController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
-
   # -------------------------------------
   # Test reading old relations.
   # -------------------------------------
-
   def test_history
     # check that a visible relations is returned properly
     get :history, :id => relations(:visible_relation).id

test/functional/old_way_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,18 +1,9 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'old_way_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class OldWayController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class OldWayControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class OldWayControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
 
-  def setup
-    @controller = OldWayController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
-
   # -------------------------------------
   # Test reading old ways.
   # -------------------------------------

test/functional/relation_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,18 +1,9 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'relation_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class RelationController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class RelationControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class RelationControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
 
-  def setup
-    @controller = RelationController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
-
   def basic_authorization(user, pass)
     @request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic %s" % Base64.encode64("#{user}:#{pass}")
   end

test/functional/way_controller_test.rb

@@ -1,18 +1,9 @@
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
 require 'way_controller'
 
-# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
-class WayController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
-
-class WayControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+class WayControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
   api_fixtures
 
-  def setup
-    @controller = WayController.new
-    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
-    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
-  end
-
   def basic_authorization(user, pass)
     @request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic %s" % Base64.encode64("#{user}:#{pass}")
   end

test/test_helper.rb

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class Test::Unit::TestCase
 
   # Load standard fixtures needed to test API methods
   def self.api_fixtures
-    print "setting up the api_fixtures"
+    #print "setting up the api_fixtures"
     fixtures :users, :changesets
 
     fixtures :current_nodes, :nodes