On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Max Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm new to rspec (and coding in general) but would it break a lot of
> people's tests if redirect_to was changed to do this by default?  It's what
> i expected it to do, personally, that is to pass if the given :action and
> :controller match up.  If i pass a url string, and it's missing the params,
> then it seems fair that it should fail, but if for example i just specify a
> controller, and that controller is called (with any action) i'd expect it to
> pass as well.
>
> Like i say i'm a newb with no idea of the impact of this to existing tests
> :)

It is conceivable that existing examples could break, but the docs do
set out the same expectation that you have.

Can you file a bug at http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com so we can get it
in the queue?


> On 14/02/2008, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 2/14/08, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > >  > On 2/14/08, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >  >  > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Rick DeNatale
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >  >  >  I don't have the cycles to add this anytime soon, so if you like
> the
> > >  >  >  idea, feel free to submit a patch to the tracker.
> > >  >
> > >  >  I'd be happy to do that, although I'm not entirely convinced that
> > >  >  redirect_with is the right name, not that I've got a better
> > >  >  alternative.
> > >
> > >
> > > redirect_with_options?
> >
> >
> > I think I like that.
> >
> >
> >
> > >  How about something added to the existing call?
> > >
> > >  response.should redirect_to(:controller => 'foo', :action =>
> > >  'bar').ignoring_other_options
> >
> >
> > This seems too wordy.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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