Hi David - thanks for replying. The literal doesn't work either, because of
all the params at the end, and i don't have named routes in this old,
non-restful app. I see your point about the hash...is there any way to get
the redirected-to url from 'response' and test against that? Then i could
split it at "?" to ignore the params. (I'd rather not include the specific
params in this test since i really just want to know about where it's
redirected to).
So, ideally i could do something like this -
response.url.split("?").first.should eql("
http://test.host/admin/users/batch_saved";)
I've been looking for documentation for methods for the response object, to
get the url, but i can't find any in the api docs (i'm probably just looking
in the wrong place). I can see the url data in the object but it's private.
thanks
max
On 13/02/2008, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 13, 2008 12:26 PM, Max Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm testing a controller action that redirects to a different
> action/view,
> > sending through some params. In my test, i'm only specifying the
> controller
> > and action that it should redirect to, but the additional params are
> making
> > it fail! Here's my test:
> >
> > it "should redirect to batch_saved after completing batch_save" do
> > post 'batch_save', @params
> > response.should redirect_to(:controller => 'admin/users', :action =>
> > 'batch_saved')
> > end
> >
> > and here's the failure report:
> >
> > 'Admin::UserController When logged in as an admin level user should
> redirect
> > to batch_saved after batch_save' FAILED
> > expected redirect to {:controller=>"admin/users",
> :action=>"batch_saved"},
> > got redirect to
> > "
> http://test.host/admin/users/batch_saved?music_service_id=1&new_users%5B%5D%5Bemail%5D=mark%40zadeup.com&new_users%5B%5D%5Bfirstname%5D=Mark&new_users%5B%5D%5Bmusic_service_id%5D=1&new_users%5B%5D%5Bschool%5D=&new_users%5B%5D%5Bsurname%5D=Madeup
> "
> >
> > Now, i would expect that since i'm just specifying a controller and
> action,
> > and we redirect to them, that the test would pass. But the params are
> > breaking it (I know this because i changed the controller action to not
> send
> > params through at all and the test passed). How do i do the test so
> that it
> > doesn't care about the params?
>
>
> When you use a hash it checks the whole hash, so this is the expected
> behaviour.
>
> You can either used a named route (if you've got one available) or a
> String literal:
>
> response.should redirect_to(admin_users_batch_saved)
> response.should redirect_to('/admin/users/batch_saved')
>
> Based on Jay Field's latest advice
> (http://blog.jayfields.com/2008/02/testing-expect-literals.html) you
> may want to consider the literal.
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> >
> >
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