On 2010-08-09 1:29 AM, christofferklang wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to rails and I'm trying to wrap my heads around how to spec
controllers using RSpec (using rails 3rc1 and rspec 2.0.0.beta.19).
The problem I've run into is when I want to test that my controllers
respond with a 404 for unfound records. Whenever I run the spec, the
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception is not caught by rails, causing
the spec example to fail since the exception propagates out of the
controller into the spec.
>From googling around I get that rails only handles the exceptions and
does a 404 response when it's run in production mode, and that you
need to call |rescue_action_in_public!| in your example if you want
this behavior for test mode. However, this does not seem to trigger
rails into handling this with a redirect to 404 even though the
@request.remote_addr gets set to 208.77.188.166.
Do I need to set something up for rails to trigger 404 redirecting of
RecordNotFound? Or is this not at all the correct way to test missing
records?
My full example: (using factory_girl, rspec mocks and devise)
it "respons with 404 when trying to edit non-existing reads" do
rescue_action_in_public!
sign_in(@user)
Read.should_receive(:find_by_id_and_user_id!).with(2,
@user.id).and_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound)
get :edit, :id => 2
response.status.should eql 404
end
and the exception:
1) ReadsController resources respons with 404 for non existing reads for GET
/reads/2/edit
Failure/Error: get :edit, :id => 2
*ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound*
Thanks, /Christoffer
This isn't RSpec 2 / Rails 3 specific, but here's how I've come to
handle this situation:
I wrote a small controller plugin (I call it IdSecurity) that looks for
an id parameter on all requests and queries the database looking for the
matching record. If one is found, it sets an instance variable using
either the class name or a custom name passed in during configuration.
If it is not found, it redirects to the target of your choice, mine
being an error handling route to which I pass the specific error number
I want it to use (in this case, 404). For testing, all I have to do is
stub the Model.find_by_id call returning nil and check that the response
redirects to my error route with the error number argument. It looks
something like:
controller:
acts_as_id_security '/error/404' # I haven't managed to get it to use
route helpers here :(
def edit
# @person will be set by IdSecurity automatically
end
controller spec:
context 'record not found' do
it 'should redirect to error path with 404' do
Person.stub(:find_by_id).and_return(nil)
get :edit, :id => '1'
response.should redirect_to(error_path(404))
end
end
This allows me to test that the plugin works, use it it controllers, and
forget it. I just have to remember that in every action that an id is
expected, there will already be an instance variable set, but isn't a
big deal to me.
Peace,
Phillip
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