On Feb 7, 2008 2:27 PM, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a controller which produces an RSS feed, pretty much based on
> Ryan Bates recent RailsCast.
>
> I'm having a heck of a time getting the spec to successfully fetch the
> feed though. I gave up got it working without a spec, and I'm now
> trying to back up and get the spec to work.
>
> The controller is simplicity itself:
>
> class PodcastRssFeedController < ApplicationController
>
> def index
> @podcasts = Podcast.latest(100)
> end
>
> end
>
> I have a route which gets to the index action and sets :format =>
> :rss, as I said this produces a valid rss response in the real world,
> just not in the spec.
>
> Here's the basic spec:
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../be_valid_feed'
>
> def mock_podcast(i)
> mock_model(
> Podcast,
> :artist_name_slug => "Artist#{i}"
> )
> end
>
> describe PodcastRssFeedController do
>
> before(:all) do
> @podcasts = (1..5).map {|i| mock_podcast(i)}
> Podcast.stub!(:latest).and_return(@podcasts)
> end
>
> describe 'handling GET brightsidepodcasts/rss.xml' do
>
> def do_get
> @request.format = 'rss'
> get 'index', :format => :rss
> end
>
> it "should successfully get feed" do
> do_get
> response.should be_success
> end
>
> it "should validate" do
> do_get
> response.should be_valid_feed
> end
> end
>
> end
>
> The validation example is failing because the response body is being returned
> as
> podcast_rss_feed/index
>
> I've tried stepping through with rdebug and I can't figure out where
> it's going wrong.
>
> I eventually end up here:
>
> 1099 logger.info("Rendering #{template_path}" + (status ?
> " (#{status})" : '')) if logger
> => 1100 render_for_text(@template.render_file(template_path,
> use_full_path, locals), status)
> 1101 end
> 1102
> 1103 def render_for_text(text = nil, status = nil,
> append_response = false) #:nodoc:
> 1104 @performed_render = true
> /Users/rick/Documents/terralien/brightside/site/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1100
>
> When I s(tep) into this I end up here:
>
> 173 @template.metaclass.class_eval do
> 174 define_method :file_exists? do
> 175 true
> 176 end
> 177 define_method :render_file do |*args|
> => 178 @first_render ||= args[0]
> 179 end
> 180 end
> 181 end
> 182 end
> /Users/rick/Documents/terralien/brightside/site/vendor/plugins/rspec_on_rails/lib/spec/rails/example/controller_example_group.rb:178
>
> It looks like the real ActionView::Base.render_file never gets called
> and that's where it looks like the realization that it's looking for
> rss rather than say html seems to happen.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
Try integrate_views:
describe PodcastRssFeedController do
integrate_views
...
end
Without that, render gets modified by rspec (to isolate your
controllers from their views).
HTH,
David
>
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> Rick DeNatale
>
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