On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:40 AM, jollyroger wrote:
> Ok,
>
> fixed it, in a nutshell:
>
> Doesnt work:
>
> get :new, :format => :lightbox
>
> Works:
>
> get :new, :format => 'lightbox'
>
> What was really confusing was that in BOTH cases the same URL appeared
> in the log.
>
> Here is my turn on what happened:
>
> Internally - when rails sees a mime-type / format - rails
> distinguishes between a string and a symbol, saying that when using
> something like
>
> respond_to do |format|
> format.lightbox {}
> end
>
> "lightbox" is expected to be a string.
>
> When doing a normal request via a browser I passed in the format in
> the URL, so as a string.
> When running a spec apparently this is passed directly the way I wrote
> it, so as a symbol.
>
> That's why one and the same URL worked in the browser, but not in my
> spec.
>
> Does this sound plausible?
Definitely. I believe what's happening is that the options hash produced by the
Rails router is a hash with indifferent access (allows you to access any key as
a symbol or a string), but the test helper methods (get, post, etc) don't do
the same thing.
Glad you solved it.
Cheers,
David
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