# Functional testing issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 20, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-issue/48420 "2005-11-20T04:08:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mithill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@mithill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mithill)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-issue/48420/1 "2005-11-20T04:08:36Z")
This is a really basic test, but the rails test environment does not give me the results I expect. Hopefully someone can set me straight. I send in a get request with one parameter and the application opens a page to edit this object - fairly basic. On this edit view there is a hidden field that contains the id value of the object. When I do this in the “real” application and view the source of the rendered html page, everything is as expected. However, when I do the same request through the functional test, the hidden input tag is created but the value attribute is not set. This is confirmed with an assert\_tag statement and by visual inspection of the result of “puts @response.body”. To head off the obvious, I have double checked that the appropriate fixtures are loaded, that the object with the id I specify is in the test database and that I am specifying the correct id. The test database has an event with id = 1 and my dev database has an event with an id = 5 Here is the call to “get” in the test. @session\_admin is just a session hash I’ve set up to have the administrator logged on. get(:show, {‘event[id]’ =\> ‘1’}, @session\_admin) puts @response.body When I look at the output, the hidden field shows up but it has no value attribute, as follows: The hidden field is defined in the view as follows: \<%= hidden\_field(‘event’,‘id’) %\> Now, I use the following URL while running the application logged on as the administrator: [http://localhost:3000/events/show?event[id]=5](http://localhost:3000/events/show?event%5Bid%5D=5) I view the source of the html document, and the hidden field is What’s the story here? ---
**Author:** ![mithill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@mithill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mithill)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-issue/48420/2 "2005-11-20T04:16:40Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 19, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Matthew T. wrote: > get(:show, {‘event[id]’ =\> ‘1’}, @session\_admin) See whether this helps: get :show, {‘event’ =\> { ‘id’ =\> ‘1’ }}, @session\_admin Not sure about the source of the discrepancy you’re seeing. jeremy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDf+mzAQHALep9HFYRAqHOAJ4syIcPhssymZZ0eWwaHwunCqlDrwCghD9W dU45ICz7gNVIS/BsEuKHuTc= =RJLj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![mithill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@mithill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mithill)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-issue/48420/3 "2005-11-20T04:28:43Z")
On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Matthew T. wrote: > is created but the value attribute is not set. This is confirmed > Here is the call to “get” in the test. @session\_admin is just a > session hash I’ve set up to have the administrator logged on. > > get(:show, {‘event[id]’ =\> ‘1’}, @session\_admin) > puts @response.body In functional tests, the parameters are not parsed. You need to pass in the hash that the parameters will be converted to: get :show, {:event =\> { :id =\> ‘1’ }}, @session\_admin - Jamis ---
**Author:** ![mithill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@mithill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mithill)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-issue/48420/4 "2005-11-20T17:41:57Z")
That was it, thank you for the replies Jeremy and Jamis.