# Functional testing post syntax

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-post-syntax/142174>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 4, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-post-syntax/142174 "2008-07-04T05:31:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/destiney)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-post-syntax/142174/1 "2008-07-04T05:31:52Z")

</div>

I’m trying to get my tests for a version 1.2.6 Rails app upgraded to  
version 2.0.2. In my functionals, all my calls to post are now  
failing. Here’s one:

post :login, :login =\> { :email =\> user.email, :password =\> ‘wrong’ }

The 2nd edition Agile Web D. with Rails book shows that exact  
syntax on page 203, and then the docs at [http://api.rubyonrails.com/](http://api.rubyonrails.com/)  
don’t really lead me to believe the syntax has changed.

So anyway, here’s the error I’m getting:

ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action\_controller/url\_rewriter.rb:81:in  
`rewrite_url' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/url_rewriter.rb:81:in `rewrite’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action\_controller/test\_process.rb:445:in  
`build_request_uri' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:392:in `process’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action\_controller/test\_process.rb:364:in  
`post' test/functional/login_controller_test.rb:78:in `test\_bad\_email\_password’

Any idea?

Thanks,

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/destiney)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-post-syntax/142174/2 "2008-07-04T05:38:53Z")

</div>

Try post ‘login’, :login =\> { :email =\> user.email, :password =\>  
‘wrong’ }

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/destiney)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-post-syntax/142174/3 "2008-07-04T05:47:04Z")

</div>

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Ryan B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Try post ‘login’, :login =\> { :email =\> user.email, :password =\>  
> ‘wrong’ }

That produces the same error.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/destiney)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 9:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-post-syntax/142174/4 "2008-07-04T09:11:23Z")

</div>

On Jul 4, 4:46 am, “Greg D.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Ryan B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > Try post ‘login’, :login =\> { :email =\> user.email, :password =\>  
> > ‘wrong’ }
> 
> That produces the same error.

Have you got a plugin that could be overriding something here. If you  
look at the rails source, in an untouched copy of rails 2.0.2,  
rewrite\_url is only called with 1 argument, not 2 (and does indeed  
only accept 1 argument). However in rails 1.2.6 it did require 2  
arguments, so my money is on a plugin haven overriden that method.

Fred

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@destiney](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/destiney)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-testing-post-syntax/142174/5 "2008-07-04T15:16:11Z")

</div>

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Frederick C.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Have you got a plugin that could be overriding something here. If you  
> look at the rails source, in an untouched copy of rails 2.0.2,  
> rewrite\_url is only called with 1 argument, not 2 (and does indeed  
> only accept 1 argument). However in rails 1.2.6 it did require 2  
> arguments, so my money is on a plugin haven overriden that method.

Thanks so much Fred. This project uses the reverse\_proxy\_fix plugin  
and it simply needed to be upgraded for Rails 2.0. My functional  
tests are now passing.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)