acts_as_solr comes with a quick and fast unit test suite, and with a longer-running functional test suite, the latter testing the actual integration with Solr. The unit test suite is written using Shoulda, so make sure you have a recent version installed. Running `rake test` or just `rake` will run both test suites. Use `rake test:unit` to just run the unit test suite. == How to run functional tests for this plugin: To run the acts_as_solr's plugin tests run the following steps: - create a MySQL database called "actsassolr_test" (if you want to use MySQL) - create a new Rails project, if needed (the plugin can only be tested from within a Rails project); move/checkout acts_as_solr into its vendor/plugins/, as usual - copy vendor/plugins/acts_as_solr/config/solr.yml to config/ (the Rails config folder) - rake solr:start RAILS_ENV=test - rake test:functional (Accepts the following arguments: DB=sqlite|mysql and MYSQL_USER=user) == Troubleshooting: If for some reason the tests don't run and you get MySQL errors, make sure you edit the MYSQL_USER entry under config/environment.rb. It's recommended to create or use a MySQL user with no password.