On 9 Oct 2008, at 20:24, Christopher Bailey wrote:
I have a controller test, where I want to do a GET on a page. Our
URL's are complex, and need to be correct (duh, but we allow some
slop, but that causes a redirect which I want to avoid). Anyway, in
my controller test I do a get to the URL that is produced by a
helper method which calls a named route URL helper. This is not
working, and I'm wondering why/what I'm messing up. Here's the line
in the spec code that starts things off (@widget is a real
ActiveRecord object):
get @controller.widget_path_for_seo(@widget)
The widget_path_for_seo method is defined in our
ApplicationController. It digs some info out of the widget instance
that then get passed to the named route URL helper method, so it
looks like this:
def widget_path_for_seo(widget)
location = seo_name_for_url widget.location.name
building =
seo_name_for_url(building_name_for_seo_url(widget.building), true) +
"-widgets"
widget_id = seo_name_for_url(widget.name) + "-" + widget.id.to_s
seo_widget_path(:location => location, : building =>
building, :id => widget_id)
end
It's the "seo_widget_path" named route helper method that is
failing. I've checked that all values going into it are valid, but
the error I get is in ActionController::Base.url_for, where it's
looking at the options hash of values that are passed in, and doing
this:
@url.rewrite(rewrite_options(options))
It compalins that @url is nil. I'm wondering if this is due to
being run under the test environment or what I'm missing/not
realizing, etc. What's strange is that some of the restful resource
route url helpers work fine. Can anyone clue me in?
--
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
Quick thought - it doesn't look like you have 'spun' up the routes
when you test this method. If you haven't already made a get/post
request through the rails integration session infrastructure the named
routes don't get loaded, and that can be quite confusing. I'm not sure
if that could be the cause of your issue but I thought it was worth
mentioning.
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