Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <200>

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Hey i am new to testing on rails and i have the following test written

describe 'GET search' do     it 'finds a named account directly' do       get :search, name: 'test'       expect(response).to redirect_to(account_path('test'))     end

I have been getting the following error

SystemAccountsController GET search finds a named account directly      Failure/Error: expect(response).to redirect_to(account_path('test'))        Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <200>      # ./spec/controllers/account_controller_spec.rb:21:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

I however get a response status of 200. I am not sure what i am doing wrong cause all my links however work correctly. Is there a way to debug this or find where the actual response is headed to ?

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kaushik p. wrote in post #1100577:

Hey i am new to testing on rails and i have the following test written

describe 'GET search' do     it 'finds a named account directly' do       get :search, name: 'test'       expect(response).to redirect_to(account_path('test'))     end

I have been getting the following error

AccountsController GET search finds a named account directly      Failure/Error: expect(response).to redirect_to(account_path('test'))        Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <200>      # ./spec/controllers/account_controller_spec.rb:21:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

I however get a response status of 200. I am not sure what i am doing wrong cause all my links however work correctly. Is there a way to debug this or find where the actual response is headed to ?

Your spec clearly indicates that you expect the "search" action to respond with a redirect (status 301 or 302), but the response is actually 200 - SUCCESS.

I don't see your controller action code posted here, but I can guess from the spec failure that it is not performing a redirect.

It's pretty easy to confirm whether a redirect is occurring with curl...

Example:

$ curl -v http://example.com * About to connect() to example.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 192.0.43.10... connected * Connected to example.com (192.0.43.10) port 80 (#0)

GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4

OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5

Host: example.com Accept: */*

* HTTP 1.0, assume close after body < HTTP/1.0 302 Found < Location: Example Domains < Server: BigIP * HTTP/1.0 connection set to keep alive! < Connection: Keep-Alive < Content-Length: 0 < * Connection #0 to host example.com left intact * Closing connection #0

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Hey Thank you very much for your reply.

I tried doing a curl as u said and i do get a 302 response

GET /accounts/search?name= HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4

OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5

Host: localhost:3000 Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 302 Found < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate < Pragma: no-cache < Expires: -1 < Location: http://localhost:3000/login?referer=/accounts/search?name= < Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 < X-Ua-Compatible: IE=Edge < X-Request-Id: 53965c374ddaeab58ccb3bc1579058e6 < X-Runtime: 0.005424 < Server: WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.9.3/2013-02-06) < Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:20:10 GMT < Content-Length: 131 < Connection: Keep-Alive

Here is my controller code for search

# coding: UTF-8

class AccountsController < ApplicationController

  def search     @accounts =     client = AccountsClient.new     if params[:name]

      response = client.query_account(CGI.escape(params[:name]))       if response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)         account = JSON.parse(response.body)         unless account.empty?           session[:account] = account           redirect_to account_path(params[:name])         end       end

        limit=100         limit = params[:limit].to_i if params[:limit].to_i.between?(1,100)

      offset = ''       offset_param = params[:offset]       if is_integer?(offset_param)         offset = "&offset=#{params[:offset]}" if offset_param.to_i.between?(0, 2**16)         end

        query = "?name=#{CGI.escape(params[:name])}&limit=#{limit}#{offset}"         response = client.query_account(query)

      end     end

  end