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+== Running with Rake
+
+The easiest way to run the unit tests is through Rake. The default task runs
+the entire test suite for all classes. For more information, checkout the
+full array of rake tasks with "rake -T"
+
+Rake can be found at http://rake.rubyforge.org
+
+== Running by hand
+
+If you only want to run a single test suite, or don't want to bother with Rake,
+you can do so with something like:
+
+ ruby controller/base_tests.rb
+
+== Dependency on ActiveRecord and database setup
+
+Test cases in the test/controller/active_record/ directory depend on having
+activerecord and sqlite installed. If ActiveRecord is not in
+actionpack/../activerecord directory, or the sqlite rubygem is not installed,
+these tests are skipped.
+
+Other tests are runnable from a fresh copy of actionpack without any configuration.
+