Need some help with a simple

Testing RSpec
1

I can’t figure out why this is failing. It seems to have a hard time
assigning the @account. I have spent way too long trying to figure this
out.

Thanks for any help.

NoMethodError in ‘StaffMembersController GET index should allow
anonymous users’
You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.staff_members

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describe StaffMembersController do

describe “GET index” do

before :each do
  @account = mock_model(Account, :staff_members =>

[mock_model(StaffMember)])
controller.stub!(:find_account_by_subdomain_or_url).and_return(@account)
end

# Authorization
it "should allow anonymous users" do
  get :index
  response.should render_template(:index)
end

end
end
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StaffMembersController
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class StaffMembersController < ApplicationController
before_filter :find_account_by_subdomain_or_url

def index
@staff_members = @account.staff_members
end

end
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2

I’m guessing the key is inside “find_account_by_subdomain_or_url”. Do
you have that defined somewhere? It probably calls something like:

@account = Account.find_by_subdomain(blah) or Account.find_by_url(blah)

In which case that’s probably what you need to stub. Nothing is
actually checking for the return value of the controller method or
assigning it to @account. In other words, you probably should do
Account.stub! instead of controller.stub! Check what’s in that method
and see if that gets you closer to the solution.

Good luck!
Glenn

3

Glenn F. wrote:

I’m guessing the key is inside “find_account_by_subdomain_or_url”. Do
you have that defined somewhere? It probably calls something like:

@account = Account.find_by_subdomain(blah) or Account.find_by_url(blah)

In which case that’s probably what you need to stub. Nothing is
actually checking for the return value of the controller method or
assigning it to @account. In other words, you probably should do
Account.stub! instead of controller.stub! Check what’s in that method
and see if that gets you closer to the solution.

Good luck!
Glenn

That worked.

I was under the impression that there would be no subdomain available
when testing, which is why I was stubbing the controller method. After
it working I actually checked what the request.domain was and saw that
it is test.host :slight_smile:

Thanks Glenn