# Unit test and get request with a URL **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 16, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unit-test-and-get-request-with-a-url/63551 "2006-06-16T05:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/charlie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unit-test-and-get-request-with-a-url/63551/1 "2006-06-16T05:42:26Z")
I’m tyring to write a unit test that uses a get() method to simulate a get request in my functional test. However, get wants an action, and I have a URL. I’m trying to redirect to a URL the user tried to hit before logging in. After they login I want to go back to the URL they originally tried. I can’t find the get() method code in the help or otherwise. I grepped through my entire ruby directory and I’ve checked the test\_helper, but it’s not there. Where the heck is it defined? And why isn’t in the rails API? Thanks Charlie ---
**Author:** ![charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/charlie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unit-test-and-get-request-with-a-url/63551/2 "2006-06-16T07:01:03Z")
Doesn’t integration testing do what you want ? [http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/09/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1](http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/09/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1) it’s in the api as well: [http://rails.outertrack.com/class/ActionController%3A%3AIntegrationTest](http://rails.outertrack.com/class/ActionController%3A%3AIntegrationTest) /r/r On 6/16/06, Charlie [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Thanks > Charlie > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Rodney [http://www.pinupgeek.com](http://www.pinupgeek.com) [http://www.dutchrailers.org](http://www.dutchrailers.org) ---
**Author:** ![charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/charlie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unit-test-and-get-request-with-a-url/63551/3 "2006-06-16T15:26:00Z")
I suppose I could start an integration test instead of my functional test, but I’m still curious as to where the code is? The functional test I’m writing doesn’t require that I go across controllers though to test this. I could write this test as a functional if I could do a get with a URL. Is there some API that I could call to break URL into a Hash of :action =\> “whatever”? Like using the route URL generation code to break it into a Hash? That way I could use the default get() method. Thanks Charlie Rodney R. wrote: > Doesn’t integration testing do what you want ? > > [http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/09/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1](http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/09/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1) > > it’s in the api as well: > > [http://rails.outertrack.com/class/ActionController%3A%3AIntegrationTest](http://rails.outertrack.com/class/ActionController%3A%3AIntegrationTest) > > /r/r ---
**Author:** ![charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/charlie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unit-test-and-get-request-with-a-url/63551/4 "2006-06-16T20:29:02Z")
I struggled a bit with this too. The get code seems to be actually contained in the process code. Check out this entry in the API: [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/TestProcess.html#M000046](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/TestProcess.html#M000046) I _think_ the process is implicit in the get call, but like you I found the apparent lack lack of Api info on the functional tests a it of a prob. HTH ---
**Author:** ![charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@charlie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/charlie)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unit-test-and-get-request-with-a-url/63551/5 "2006-06-17T19:05:31Z")
Ok I went back and read your post. At first I thought I got it, but after thinking about it more it didn’t make much sense. So back to hunting through the rails code to find my answer. The get method’s aren’t in the docs because they’re generated dynamically on the fly using this method ([http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/TestProcess.html#M000045](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/TestProcess.html#M000045)) This might have been what you were trying to tell me, but I guess I missed it. Thanks Chris T for giving me a more straight forward answer. That’s how the get, post, etc methods get in your Test::Unit::TestCase. And you’re right they end up calling process. Very sneaky, and wonderfully undocumented! Errggg. I’ve wasted two days trying to understand this, and I don’t think it gets me any closer to my goal. Charlie Chris T wrote: > I struggled a bit with this too. The get code seems to be actually > contained in the process code. Check out this entry in the API: > [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/TestProcess.html#M000046](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/TestProcess.html#M000046) > > I _think_ the process is implicit in the get call, but like you I found > the apparent lack lack of Api info on the functional tests a it of a > prob. > > HTH