get all unit tests running again. Seems we have some pretty old code in there :-)

test/test_helper.rb

@@ -11,3 +11,46 @@ class ActiveSupport::TestCase
 
   # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
 end
+
+module Tracks
+  class Config
+    def self.salt
+      "change-me"
+    end
+    def self.auth_schemes
+      return ["database","open_id"]
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+class ActiveSupport::TestCase
+
+  # Generates a random string of ascii characters (a-z, "1 0")
+  # of a given length for testing assignment to fields
+  # for validation purposes
+  #
+  def generate_random_string(length)
+    string = ""
+    characters = %w(a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w z y z 1\ 0)
+    length.times do
+      pick = characters[rand(26)]
+      string << pick
+    end
+    return string
+  end
+  
+  def assert_equal_dmy(date1, date2)
+    assert_equal date1.strftime("%d-%m-%y"), date2.strftime("%d-%m-%y")
+  end
+
+end
+
+class Test::Unit::TestCase
+
+  def assert_value_changed(object, method = nil)
+    initial_value = object.send(method)
+    yield
+    assert_not_equal initial_value, object.send(method), "#{object}##{method}"
+  end
+  
+end