On Friday, March 29, 2013 7:32:36 AM UTC, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > On Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:06:09 PM UTC+2, Dihital wrote: >> >> Redirect ends current request and starts a new one, so you are right that >> that's the case (another action isn't called nor its template rendered). > > > That left me pondering, why does it matter that a new request is started. > Anyway, it seems that rspec tests can verify that a redirect to a given > path occurs, but there is no way to evaluate the contents of the resulting > page: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2865378/rspec-rails-how-to-follow-a-redirect > > Maybe someone can verify that this is the case, or tell me otherwise? > > That sounds like they're talking about rspec controller specs (which are designed to spec a single request to a controller) rather than rspec request specs which are designed to do a series of requests (and which I'm not sure existed back in 2010).
Make sure that you are actually doing a request spec (is the file in /spec/requests), and as some of the answers on that page mention, automatic redirect following differs across capybara drivers. Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/AJOSkqBd10cJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
