Be_success misleading

Testing RSpec
1

Just wondering if anyone else thinks that ‘response.should be_success’
is
potentially misleading. If you’re writing a spec for an action that is
failing in some way it can still have a status 200. So while the
HTTP request was technically successful, something in the action
was not. Perhaps something like ‘response.should have_success_status’?

Steve

2

be_success has the same semantics (and uses) Response#success? and
that’s not our API, but Rails’

If you don’t like Rails’ semantics you can make your own matcher, but
I don’t want to invent a whole new API on top of Rails in the official
Spec::Rails.

Aslak

3

On Nov 10, 2007 11:12 AM, aslak hellesoy [email protected]
wrote:

be_success has the same semantics (and uses) Response#success? and
that’s not our API, but Rails’

If you don’t like Rails’ semantics you can make your own matcher, but
I don’t want to invent a whole new API on top of Rails in the official
Spec::Rails.

+1

David

ps - Aslak, what gives w/ the top posting?