On 7/4/07, Patrick Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > aslak hellesoy wrote: > On 7/3/07, Patrick Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I think @header may not be an implementation detail in this case. > > If your layout looks like this: > > ... > <head> > <title><%= @header || 'Default Title' %></title> > </head> > ... > > And the view we are testing looks like this: > > ... > <h1><%= @header = 'Specific Title'></h1> > ... > > Then setting @header is an essential behavior for the view spec. > > Or am I missing something? > > > Before I can answer about how to test this with RSpec, I need to > understand what's going on in the code. Isn't the head part of the > layout evaluated before the body? If that's the case, what's the point > of assigning the @header variable in the view? It wouldn't change the > title anyway > The layout is evaluated after the view so the above code is a useful way to > include some piece of data in the head without having to initialize it in > the controller. Very handy for things like head/title or view specific > onload js etc...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the behavior you're interested in is that the right thing shows up in the title: response.should have_tag('title', 'whatever I am expecting') Am I missing something? > > Cheers! > Patrick > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users