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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>
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