David Chelimsky wrote:
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?
I could do that, but that's not the really behavior I'm interested in for the view. I'd rather look at the title tag in my layout spec and the instance variable in my view.

It doesn't really make a difference in this simple case, but it would if the title was inserted from a partial called from the layout, or the instance variable was used in multiple places in the layout.

Cheers!
Patrick
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