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How to test routes?

How to use rspec to test named routes?

  • Given I have a named route: map.some_route '/some_routes/:id', :controller => 'some', :action => 'other' How do I use the routing spec file 'spec/routing/some_routing_spec.rb' to test for that named route? I've tried this after the "describe SomeRouteController" block and it doesn't work, I get 'undefined method "helper": describe SomeRouteHelper, 'some routes named routes' do it 'should recognize some_route' do helper.some_route_path(23).should == '/some_routes/23' end end

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    If this is in a controller spec, you can call the routing method directly, no helper needed. describe SomeController do it 'should recognize ma routes!' do thing_path(23).should == '/things/23' end end

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In RSpec-Rails 2.7+ you can create a spec/routing directory and put your routing specs in there. See the https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/routing-specs for more info.

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You can do this in your controller specs with the assert_routing method, like so: describe UsersController do it "should recognize a specific users#show route" do assert_routing("/users/23", {:controller => "users", :action => "show", :id => 23}) end end More documentation is http://www.railsbrain.com/api/rails-2.3.2/doc/index.html?a=M000350&name=assert%5Frouting.

bantic

there's a nice shoulda matcher for this too: it { should route(:get, "/users/23").to(:action => "show", :id => 23) more information on using shoulda matchers with rspec: https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers

Jared

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