One personal comment first: getting testing to work (not so much writing test) meant considerable effort, which is why it took me so long to come up with some tests. I do not consider the redmine plugin framework considerably test-friendly.
- if not in trunk, change the gem dependencies in config/environments/test.rb, change the shoulda reference to
config.gem "shoulda"
- install gems
- gem install cucumber cucumber-rails
- gem install rspec rspec-rails
- gem install shoulda
- gem install edavis10-object_daddy mocha
- gem install ruby-debug
- gem install jeweler
- gem install faker
- gem install factory_girl