On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Joel Young <skizzy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using render_to_string in a controller to send some JSON data with
> an HTML fragment. Unfortunately, it seems that rspec-rails breaks that
> by intercepting render and simply recording that a render was called.
> Using rspec-rails and rspec versions 1.2.9, I've tracked it down to
> lib/spec/rails/example/controller_example_group.rb:181 -- since it's
> calling record_render, it returns a Fixnum, so instead of an HTML
> fragment, I get "1". I've confirmed that if I add a call to "super" on
> the next line, it does what I want. Obviously that would be bad for
> other reasons, though.
>
> Is there a workaround for this? Is there a better way to get an HTML
> fragment included in the JSON? Using an RJS template won't work, since
> it wraps my JSON object in an exception handling block.
>
> For reference, here's the controller action that calls
> render_to_string:
>
> def changed
> unless params[:since]
> render :status => :bad_request
> return
> end
> respond_to do |format|
> format.js do
> @changed = Event.changed_since(params[:since]).collect do |
> event|
> {
> :id => dom_id(event),
> :sidebar_html => render_to_string(:partial =>
> "history_item", :object => event)
> }
> end
> render :json => @changed
> end
> end
> end
>
> And here is the relevant part of the controller spec:
>
> it "should return the sidebar HTML for the event" do
> get :changed, :since => @time
> json = JSON.parse(response.body)
> json.should have(1).event
> response.body = json.first["sidebar_html"]
> response.should include_text("TestApp r1234")
> end
>
http://rspec.info/rails/writing/controllers.html
For any case in which you want the controller to render views, you can say
integrate_views.
HTH,
David
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