RSpec HTTP get simulation

Rails
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Gi guis, I’m using the RSpec testing plugin to make my tests, but I’ve
encountered a problem.
In my application I’ve different named routes that go to the same
controller, so to simulate a session HTTP request I can’t use

def do_get
get :index
end

but I would like to put the named url, with something like

def do_get
get televisions_url
end

The solution is not working, since the get method put the generated url
into the action option, and in this way it doesn’t work. I read here [1]
an example which confirm that my idea is correct, but it’s not working
on my system. I use Rails 2.1 on a *nix platform.
I also looked for the documentation of the method and into the source
code, but I wasn’t able to solve the problem :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance for your help.

Andrea

[1]
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/3/9/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1

2

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Andrea R. <
[email protected]> wrote:

but I would like to put the named url, with something like

def do_get
get televisions_url
end

The solution is not working, since the get method put the generated url
into the action option, and in this way it doesn’t work. I read here [1]
an example which confirm that my idea is correct, but it’s not working
on my system.

Jamis’ article is talking about rails integration testing which is not
the
same as functional testing.

RSpec controller specs use the Rails functional testing framework.

The get, post, update, and delete methods in the functional
tests/controller
specs don’t go through routing, they only call the controller action
methods
after setting up the environment.

Now you say you have multiple routes to your controller, lets say you
have a
named route

 map.televisions :controller => "x_controller", :action => :tv_list

then you can certainly write

def do_get_televisions
    get :tv_list
end

The equivalent to Rails integration tests in RSpec are stories with the
RailsStory option set. This uses the Rails integration test framework,
but
it’s quite different from writing RSpec examples.

–
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

3

Now you say you have multiple routes to your controller, lets say you
have a
named route

 map.televisions :controller => "x_controller", :action => :tv_list

then you can certainly write

def do_get_televisions
    get :tv_list
end

The equivalent to Rails integration tests in RSpec are stories with the
RailsStory option set. This uses the Rails integration test framework,
but
it’s quite different from writing RSpec examples.

–
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

Thanks a lot for the answer. I got the fact that the article I of Jamis
wasn’t related to Rspec, but your example is not working with me. I’ll
explain with an example.

A sample route configuration I’m working with, is similar at this

def map.resource_routing(resources)
resources.each do |resource|
self.send( “resources”, resource, :path_prefix => “resources”,
:controller => “resources”)
end
end

map.resource_routing %w(televisions sensors lights)

In this way I can dynamicaly generate all the restful routes I need in
an easy way. They will looks similar at these

/resources/lights
/resources/lights/:id
…
/resources/televisions
/resources/televisions/:id
…

In this case if I use the get method, rightly I’ll get back an HTTP call
to /resources.

def do_get_televisions
get :index
end

I don’t wanna give complexity (if I can of course) just because of
making test working. Maybe I’m wrong on the idea that there is under my
modeling system, but it works well for me.

Thanks again for the help.

Andrea R.