Why is it that I can't do "get posts_url" in my post functional testing? posts_url correctly evaluates to "http://test.host/posts" (*), but any attempt to get this url fails with an UnknownAction. Similarly, "get '/posts'", "get '/posts/index'" etc all fail. "get 'index'" works fine.
Which may sound trivial, but it seems silly to not be able to use "get new_post_url" with your restful controllers.
The main reason it's falling over seems to be that the TestProcess module is very action-based - it doesn't expect to see the full "http://test.host/posts/index" url. I've hacked in a workaround that strips out everything but the action:
module ActionController::TestProcess alias_method :orig_process, :process def process(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil) #Strip out occurrences of (eg) 'http://test.host/posts’, leaving us with just the action. nameless_action = action.to_s.gsub(/http:\/\/#{@request.host_with_port}\/#{@controller.class.controller_path}\/?/, '') nameless_action = 'index' if nameless_action.blank? orig_process(nameless_action, parameters, session, flash) end end
- but it's pretty ugly, and I suspect it'll break on all but the simplest routes. Can anyone else do better?
Jon
* - once you've done the "get :index" hack - http://rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2006/7/22/test-named-routes-or-url_for-link_to)
