session not storing flash message

Hi all,

I faced a problem while writing functional tests, where the session wasn't storing the flash message, even when the message was shown to be stored in the flash hash.

See the code :

This wasn't working :

flash[:notice] = "Hi there" assert_equal "Hi there", flash[:notice]

But this was :

flash[:notice] = "Hi there" session["flash"] = {:notice => "Hi there"} assert_equal "Hi there", flash[:notice]

Did anybody ever faced the same problem ?

~rd