Can't access route variables

Testing RSpec
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I’m testing methods in my ApplicationController using anonymous
controller
class (not sure if that’s relevant). I’ve somehow broken something such
that I do not have access to the routing variables that rails generates.

So rather than having something like ‘response.should redirect_to
new_user_session_path’ I’m having to go with 'response.should
redirect_to
‘/users/sign_in’

I’ve created a new project to check if I messed anything in spec_helper
or
something else, and I’ve been unable to reproduce outside of my current
project. I can access the route variables from other controller spec
classes, but not from the application_controller_spec.

Can anyone point me at where to look to start troubleshooting this?

Rails 3.0.5
$ gem list | grep rspec
rspec (2.5.0)
rspec-core (2.5.2)
rspec-expectations (2.5.0)
rspec-mocks (2.5.0)
rspec-rails (2.5.0)

Code snippets
/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
protect_from_forgery

def require_bar
if
!user_signed_in?

  redirect_to new_user_session_path
  return
end

check for bar here

end
end

/spec/controllers/application_controller_spec.rb
require ‘spec_helper’

describe ApplicationController do
describe “#require_bar” do
controller do
before_filter :require_bar
def index
render :text => “”, :status => 200
end
end

context "when not signed in" do
  before :each do
    controller.stub(:user_signed_in?).and_return(false)
  end
  it "should fail gracefully by redirecting to log in" do
    get :index
    # This works
    response.should redirect_to '/users/sign_in'
    # this causes: undefined local variable or method

`new_merchant_session_path’ for
#RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_2::Nested_1:0x000001034cd160
# response.should redirect_to new_user_session_path
end
end
end

2

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 09:53, John H. [email protected]
wrote:

project. I can access the route variables from other controller spec
rspec-rails (2.5.0)
redirect_to new_user_session_path
describe “#require_bar” do
end
end
RSpec’s anonymous controller does not use your routes. If you look at
how the controller method is implemented[1], you’ll see the routes
being replaced with just the anonymous resources.

You can do something similar in a before block in your spec. For
example:

describe ApplicationController do
describe “#require_bar” do
controller do
before_filter :require_bar
def index
render :text => “”, :status => 200
end
end

before do
  @routes.draw do
    resources :anonymous # for all other specs to keep working
    resources :user_sessions # this makes new_user_session_path

available
end
end

context “when not signed in” do
before :each do
controller.stub(:user_signed_in?).and_return(false)
end
it “should fail gracefully by redirecting to log in” do
get :index
response.should redirect_to new_user_session_path
end
end
end
end

Hope that helps,
Mike

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