Rspec and restful routes

Rails
#1

Hi all,

I’m trying to test that my users show page renders. The resource has
the route /users/:id

How would I code that for an Rspec test? So far I’ve tried these four
ways:

it “should have a users show path” do
get user_path(:action => ‘show’)
end

it “should have a users show path” do
get user_show_path
end

it “should have a users show path” do
get user_path(:id => ‘1’)
end

it “should have a users show path” do
get ‘/users/1’
end

But I keep getting a RoutingError from Rspec even though it renders ok
when I just go to the page. So how would I spec it? Thanks

#2

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:16 AM, edward michaels [email protected]
wrote:

end

it “should have a users show path” do
get user_show_path
end

it “should have a users show path” do
get user_path(:id => ‘1’)
end

This variant worked on my side:

…/spec/requests$ vim orders_spec.rb
describe “Orders” do
…
describe “GET /order/id” do
it “routes to a show order” do
get order_path(:id => “abc123”)
response.status.should be(200)
end
end

Passes when that order is in the test db and fails with
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound when I change
the id to a non-present value, so that seems correct.
I have the record in the test db at the time of executing
this test.

But I keep getting a RoutingError from Rspec even though it renders ok

when I just go to the page. So how would I spec it? Thanks

Maybe just try to log the result of

user_path(:id => ‘1’)
user_path(:id => 1)

in your controller, to see what it gives there?

In the controller under test I added:

Rails.logger.debug order_path(:id => ‘adsfadf1’)

and this yields in the log:

/orders/adsfadf1

Do the standard request tests that are built by rspec-rails
in the spec/requests/ directory upon rails g scaffold function
correctly?

HTH,

Peter

#3

Thanks, you don’t declare the restful routes in your controller
though, right? The error that I’m getting specifies that there is no
‘show’ action like this:

   ActionController::RoutingError:
   No route matches {:controller=>"users", :action=>"users/1"}

So it’s looking for a ‘users/1’ action but of course it’s not going to
find it in the controller.

#4

use that looks incorrect the restful actions are actions like
show
index
create

etc etc

#5

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:07 PM, edward michaels [email protected]
wrote:

Thanks, you don’t declare the restful routes in your controller
though, right?

In the case I showed, I do declare the default RESTful
routes in the config/routes.rb (they are set there by the
rails generator):

$ cat config/routes.rb
ApplicationName::Application.routes.draw do
…
resources :orders
…
end

The error that I’m getting specifies that there is no

‘show’ action like this:

  ActionController::RoutingError:
  No route matches {:controller=>"users", :action=>"users/1"}

So it’s looking for a ‘users/1’ action but of course it’s not going to
find it in the controller.

Did you try rake routes to inspect the details ?

$ rake routes | grep order | grep show
order GET /orders/:id(.:format)
orders#show

HTH,

Peter