Unit Test: Mocking the User-Agent

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Hi,

Im trying to test the following method:

def notice 65 userAgent = request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] 66 67 if userAgent.index('MSIE 7.0;') != nil 68 @ie7 = true 69 elsif userAgent.index('MSIE 6.0;') != nil 70 @ie6 = true 71 end 72 73 if (@ie6) 74 render :action=> "notice", :layout => false 75 else 76 redirect_to :controller => "home", :action => "index" 77 end 78 end

the problem im having is that i cant seem to find a way of setting the user agent before it goes into the method and checks the type of browser being used.

im sure this is something trivial involving a mock but its just proving to be a bit illusive to me :frowning:

Cheers, Chris

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If you're in a functional test and have a TestRequest object named @request, you could do this:

    @request.env["User-Agent"] = "whutever" # I think that header name is right...

You can set arbitrary headers like that.

--Jeremy

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Hi Jeremy,

thanks for the reply.

How exactly do i build a testRequest? ive never come across such a thing?

Chris

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You need to read up on Rails' functional testing. Google has a lot of good resources! :slight_smile:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=rails+functional+testing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

--Jeremy