How can I test my controller via rspec for something other than response.should be_success?

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  1. Right now this is just testing a successful response. However, since
    I’ve gone and created a Post via FactoryGirl… how can I test the
    @post.id equals one of the id’s being returned by the get: index json?

    describe Api::V1::PostsController do

context ‘Post’ do
before(:each) do
@post = FactoryGirl.create(:post)
end

context '#index' do
  it "should have a successful response on get index" do
    get :index, format: :json
    response.should be_success
  end
end

EDIT:

  1. How can I use “post :create” when my route is nested.

For example… this works great as an rspec controller post :create with
a top level resource, such as post

  it "should get a success response on post create" do
    post :create, params
    response.should be_success
  end

however, for a nested resource like ‘comment’ which is nested under
post… the above would throw the following…

Failure/Error: post :create, params
 ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
   No route matches

and if I tried

      it "should get a success response on post create" do
    post :create, post_id: @post.id, params #@post is defined and

created above
response.should be_success
end

I get this odd error…

syntax error, unexpected '\n', expecting => (SyntaxError)
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See this blog