Controller Testing + Devise = boom (undefined @controller, request)

Testing RSpec
1

Here I am, trying to learn TDD and BDD. Getting start, most simple
case, and the world is falling apart:

My test code:

it “should respond with success” do
puts ‘hi’

get :new

response.should be_success

end

My stack trace:
$ rspec spec
“controller: nil”
F

Failures:

  1. VideosController new exposes request and response before and after
    the action
    Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
    NoMethodError:
    undefined method `request’ for nil:NilClass

/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:48:in
method_missing' # /Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:20:ininitialize’
#
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:60:in
new' # /Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:60:inwarden’
# /Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-[/code]

You’ll notice it says controller: nil. I added a debugging line to the
devise helper, as
such:

class TestWarden < Warden::Proxy #:nodoc:
attr_reader :controller

  def initialize(controller)
    @controller = controller
    manager = Warden::Manager.new(nil) do |config|
      config.merge! Devise.warden_config
    end
    p "controller: #{controller.inspect}"
    super(controller.request.env, manager)
  end

Thanks for any help!
–Peter

2

I am assuming that the get and response lines are not commented
out in your actual test!

Does your code consist ONLY of the lines below?
I think you need to proceed the “it” line with a “describe” line.
for example:

describe “my test” do
it “…” do
put other code here
end
end

3

My apologies! Yes, the describe is there. Here’s the whole file, with
some other commented code (tests, before block) removed:

require ‘spec_helper’

describe ‘VideosController’ do

describe ‘new’ do

it "should respond with success" do
  puts 'hi'

get :new

response.should be_success

end

end

end

Really without understanding of what is going on under the hood… :-/