I have a Queues controller and and QueueItems controller in my rails
application. In routes I have defined as below
`match 'queues/:queue_id/next', :to=> 'queueitems#next'`
In my QueueItems Controller I have a next action and it assigns an
instance variable.
def next
@queue = "Regular"
#other stuffs related to regular
end
How do I test this in Rspec. I am pretty very new to Rspec. Please help.
I tried like the below
describe "next " do
it "routes /queues/:queue_id/next" do
{ :get => "/queues/regular_queue/next" }.should route_to(
:controller => "queue_items",
:action => "next",
:queue_id => "regular_queue",
:format => "json"
)
assigns(:queue).should_not be_nil
expect(response).to be_success
end
But it is not at all coming inside my next action in controller.
What you’ve written there is a routing spec - it’s just testing that your routes file maps that path to the correct controller/action. It’s not making a request at all. For that you want a controller spec (these should be in spec/controllers/ for rspec to detect this as a controller spec. You’d want something along these lines
:format => "json"
)
assigns(:queue).should_not be_nil
expect(response).to be_success
end
But it is not at all coming inside my next action in controller.
What you've written there is a routing spec - it's just testing that
your
routes file maps that path to the correct controller/action. It's not
making a request at all. For that you want a controller spec (these
should
be in spec/controllers/ for rspec to detect this as a controller spec.
You'd want something along these lines
describe QueueItemsController do
describe 'GET next' do
it 'should assign queue' do
get :next
assigns(:queue).should == 'Regular'
end
end
end
Fred
Hi Fred,
I tried the above code by putting it in the
spec/controllers/queue_items_constroller_spec.rb file
But it shows the routing error as
Failure/Error: get :next
ActionController::RoutingError:
No route matches {:controller=>"queue_items", :action=>"next"}
In the routes file I have defined as
match '/queues/:queue_id/next', :to => 'queue_items#next',
:format=>'json'