On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:19 AM, David Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm currently working on some RSpec view tests and I'm having problems
> with expect_render. Most of the expect_render's work fine, but in one
> of my views I have:
>
> <%= render :partial => "user_cloud", :locals => {:user =>
> @featured_user} %>
>
> I see that expect_render supports ":object" or ":collection" for the
> second parameter, but this partial uses ":locals". I tried
> expect_render without the second parameter and with ":locals" and it
> failed to match both times. I confirmed that the partial is rendering
> in the test.log. Is there a way to match this render?
Sounds like a missing feature. Please enter a ticket at
http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com.
>
> On a similar note, is there a way to test that layout views are
> rendered?
Not in view specs. Layouts are rendered by controllers, not by the
views themselves, so you should do that in controller specs.
Cheers,
David
> I can test that the :partials in the layout are rendered,
> but not the layout file itself.
>
> In both of these cases I know I could do a "has_tag" and test for
> something inside the layout file or partial, but I'd rather test
> contents in a view test for each partial and just verify that the
> partial is rendered in the view tests that render the partial.
>
> Thank you,
>
> David
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