Weird error message

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi, as I add more and more tests I sometimes get this error:

Expected response to be a <:success>, but was <0>

I'm a little lost as to what it means... no response? error? But it seems to come and go as I change code. I never quite figured out why though.

Thanks for any help :slight_smile: Jonzo.

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Hi I'm still having trouble with this, has anyone ever seen this message before?

fyi, I'm still using rails 1.2.3 till I can get time to make the move to 2.0. It might not be in the latest version, but I'd still like to know if anyone has seen this message before.. ever

Thanks again, Jonzo.

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When you get a 0 instead of an HTTP response code, the page probably didn't render correctly. Look at your test.log or, in your test:

puts response.body

That may give you a better idea what's going on.

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Thanks! I'll look into that.

Do you know anything more about this? I ask because usually when I have an error in a template or action it is output as an exception in the test summary. Does this error show up when there is a specific type of error? for instance, if rails locks up? or if it fails in a before_filter? or something?

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I've never characterized the problems that cause this beyond the fact that it happens when testing controllers. The key thing is you didn't get an HTTP response code. So you know you didn't get through render, which makes it likely that your code is flawed. That's really the first thing you wanted to know from your test anyway, right?

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Ok cool, I'll update this thread when I figure it out :slight_smile:

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Found the problem! I had monkey patched CGI::Session to allow flash to provide a session id, but I'd moved the file around in my lib directory so it wasn't loading properly, and rails was dying before it even got to my application!

all fixed now, Thanks for your help s.ross :slight_smile: