How to invoke multiple controllers in the same describe block?

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1

Hi,

I seek to authenticate and then test other routing in RSpec, but the
standard RSpec vernacular…

describe SomeController do

it “blah-blah” do
get :new
…
end

end

…doesn’t seem to allow me to post my login data, as in the following
pseudo-code:

describe SomeController do

before(:each) do
post :controller=>“authentication”, :action=>
“create”, :new_session=>{“user_name”=>“Lille”…}
end
…
end

I’ve scanned all the methods in the RDoc, but I cannot identify the
manner in which I may specify the controller directly. Any help?

Thanks,

Lille

2

On Sep 3, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Lille wrote:

Hi,

I seek to authenticate and then test other routing in RSpec, but the
standard RSpec vernacular…

describe SomeController do

it “blah-blah” do
get :new
…
end

end

…doesn’t seem to allow me to post my login data, as in the following
pseudo-code:

describe SomeController do

before(:each) do
post :controller=>“authentication”, :action=>
“create”, :new_session=>{“user_name”=>“Lille”…}
end
…
end

I’ve scanned all the methods in the RDoc, but I cannot identify the
manner in which I may specify the controller directly. Any help?

Controller specs wrap behaviour of ActionController::TestCase, which is
designed to handle one request per example.

You could do this in request specs (integration specs in rspec-2), which
derive behaviour from rails integration tests.

HTH,
David

3

Lille wrote:

Hi,

I seek to authenticate and then test other routing in RSpec, but the
standard RSpec vernacular…

describe SomeController do

it “blah-blah” do
get :new
…
end

end

…doesn’t seem to allow me to post my login data, as in the following
pseudo-code:

describe SomeController do

before(:each) do
post :controller=>“authentication”, :action=>
“create”, :new_session=>{“user_name”=>“Lille”…}
end
…
end

I’ve scanned all the methods in the RDoc, but I cannot identify the
manner in which I may specify the controller directly. Any help?

Thanks,

Lille

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You can’t do that with basic controller specs. What you can do is
stub a method on the controller (maybe #current_user) or set a bit of
session info like session[:user_id]. So you can set up the spec so that
a user is logged in when making the request, but you can’t make multiple
requests in a single spec. For that you’ll want the integration specs or
Cucumber.

Pat