On 31 January 2010 22:02, Nick Hoffman <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> One of my controller actions sends a redirect if the request URI begins
> with /foods/search
>
> 34 def search
> 35 return redirect_to "/#{params[:name]}" if
> request.request_uri.match /^\/foods\/search/
>
> Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to spec this.
>
> >From everything that I've read while researching this problem, it seems
> that #get and #post only accept the action to call, and a hash of
> parameters. IE:
> get :action, :some => 'param'
> As a result, I can't do this:
> 121 it 'redirects /foods/search/almonds to /almonds' do
> 122 get '/foods/search/almonds'
> 123 response.should redirect_to "/almonds"
> 124 end
>
> How can I spec this?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Nick
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You might find this easier to do as an integration test. I'd use cucumber
for this. Personally I think speccing controllers is pretty hard for the
benefits it gives, and if you keep your controllers real simple and thin and
use cucumber you can discard most controller specs.
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