Hi all,
On a basic negative test case, we want to ensure that when we PATCH to the
wrong URL, we get a 404 error. The test looks like this (slightly modified
to improve clarity):
it 'fails if using a bad id' do
patch our_endpoint(bad_id), params: form_params, as: :json
expect(response).to have_http_status(:not_found)
end
when we run this, we get an exception, ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
It is thrown by #find not finding anything:
def update
post = Post.find(params[:id])
post.update(description: params[:description])
end
My question is: if we're doing RSPec testing, shouldn't the default
configuration be to return a 404 HTTP response instead of a Ruby exception?
Is my understanding of the paradigm broken? All the examples showing RSpec
testing API's work fine - return an HTTP response - for a success (200
response), but if it fails, it throws an exception (and doesn't return an
HTTP response)
By the way, I know how to correct this: as a workaround, we change the
configuration in config > environments > test.rb as follows:
# Raise exceptions instead of rendering exception templates.
config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions = true
or alternately, we can put that setting in the before method of the RSpec
file, or in the rails_helper.rb under the spec directory, and again it
works fine, but why wouldn't that be already set as default, given the
paradigm I'm assuming of how RSpec is meant to work - that is, as much as
possible with a outward-facing mentality?
Thanks,
Byron
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