Re: [rspec-users] Writing a spec for HTTP OPTIONS verb

2011-05-24 Thread Sidu Ponnappa
Take a look at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/13468 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/13319 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/17014 There's more, but these were the ones I could find quickly. Best, Sidu. http://c42.in http://ab

Re: [rspec-users] Writing a spec for HTTP OPTIONS verb

2011-05-24 Thread Andrew Premdas
On 24 May 2011 19:13, Sidu Ponnappa wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I'm not sure that's necessarily true - I've read of several RESTful > APIs using OPTIONS to discover more about a resource at a URI. Rails > clearly recognizes the OPTIONS HTTP verb because I get > > Ah do you have any links about this y

Re: [rspec-users] Writing a spec for HTTP OPTIONS verb

2011-05-24 Thread Sidu Ponnappa
It was simple enough to add to Rails - I've submitted a pull request: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/1277 If the pull request isn't accepted, then it should be easy enough for me to add it to rspec-rails if David and the rest of the rspec team thinks that's an acceptable alternative. Best, S

Re: [rspec-users] Writing a spec for HTTP OPTIONS verb

2011-05-24 Thread Sidu Ponnappa
Hi Andrew, I'm not sure that's necessarily true - I've read of several RESTful APIs using OPTIONS to discover more about a resource at a URI. Rails clearly recognizes the OPTIONS HTTP verb because I get Started OPTIONS "/" for 127.0.0.1 at Tue May 24 23:38:38 +0530 2011 when I query a standard

Re: [rspec-users] Writing a spec for HTTP OPTIONS verb

2011-05-24 Thread Sidu Ponnappa
A cursory examination of http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/TestCase seems to indicate that there may be no way to write tests for options calls using standard Rails tests. 'First, one uses the get, post, put, delete or head method to simulate an HTTP request.' Best, Sidu. http://c42.in htt

Re: [rspec-users] Writing a spec for HTTP OPTIONS verb

2011-05-24 Thread Andrew Premdas
On 24 May 2011 04:26, satyamag wrote: > > Hi > > I am new to rails and rspec. I am trying to write specs for a web service > written in rails and found that firefox 3.6 makes an OPTIONS call to the > server before making a POST. > > I want to write a spec for this behavior but am unable to find a