On Sunday, July 16, 2017 at 1:43:01 AM UTC+1, Ralph Shnelvar wrote: > > > expect(response).to (have_http_status(200) || have_http_status(302)) > > While syntactically valid, this doesn't work because > have_http_status(200)will > throw an exception before it gets to the have_http_status(302) . > > This doesn't work, but not for the reason you think. Calling have_http_status(200) never raises an exception. It creates a matcher object that the `to` method uses. The ruby || operator (one of few things that can't be overridden) evaluates to the first non falsy thing, so your code is the same as
expect(response).to (have_http_status(200) || have_http_status(302)) Rspec (since 3.0) does however have compound / composable matchers (see https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/v/3-6/docs/compound-expectations, http://rspec.info/blog/2014/01/new-in-rspec-3-composable-matchers/) so expect(response).to have_http_status(200) | have_http_status(302) should work, as would things like expect(3).to eq(2) | eq(3) This works because | and & are overridable methods and have been defined on matchers to mean "create me a new matcher which matches if either argument matches" (or both match in the & case) 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/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/8ef74046-a257-43cb-b2d8-dc95fa46d314%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.