REST and functional tests

Rails
1

Just playing around with converting an apps to the new REST goodness in
edge rails, and I’m trying to work out how to convert/write the
functional tests.

Is the recommended way to explicitly use the actions (e.g. get :show,
:id => …; post :create,…, etc) and test the routes separately, or
duplicate the request, in which case how is that done get “/”, :id => 5
doesn’t work as I think the first parameter is expected to be an action?
Probably really obvious but I’m just not seeing it at the moment.

2

Chris,
For functional testing the same methods work fine for restful
routing. Check out simple example below.

class CustomersControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
fixtures :customers

def setup
@controller = CustomersController.new
@request = ActionController::TestRequest.new
@response = ActionController::TestResponse.new
end

def test_index
get :index
assert_response :success
assert_template ‘customers/index’
end

…

def test_edit
get :edit, :id => customers(:customer1).id
assert_response :success
assert_template ‘customers/edit’
end

… etc.

end

Hope this helps,
Zack