Failing test with nested controller routes

Testing RSpec
1

I have googled and browsed through spec-users archives, but didn’t
find anything different.

I used rspec scaffold command to generate a mvc for groups, I used
nested controller so I could have a separate interface for admin.

the specs are the same as generated, so I won’t post the whole thing.
I did put the nested routes names on the calls to the name routes:

it “should redirect to the new group on successful save” do
post_with_successful_save
response.should redirect_to(admin_group_url(“1”))
end

the error:
1)
‘Admin::GroupsController handling POST /admin/groups should redirect to
the new
group on successful save’ FAILED
expected redirect to “http://test.host/admin/groups/1”, got redirect to
“http://
test.host/groups/1”
./spec/controllers/admin/groups_controller_spec.rb:246:

test log:

Processing GroupsController#update (for 0.0.0.0 at 2007-10-27 21:53:44)
[PUT]
Session ID:
Parameters: {“action”=>“update”, “id”=>“1”,
“controller”=>“admin/groups”}
Redirected to http://test.host/groups/1
Completed in 0.00061 (1647 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 302 Found
[http://test.host/admin/groups/1]

it get redirected to http://test.host/groups/1 instead of admin/groups/1

It does work in the interface, which makes me believe that its not in
rails but something in rspec:
dev log:

Processing GroupsController#create (for 127.0.0.1 at 2007-10-27
22:04:00) [POST]
Session ID: 082b2f0103579493d5aa2a2851b4e721
Parameters: {“commit”=>“Create”, “action”=>“create”,
“controller”=>“admin/groups”, “group”=>{…}}
SQL (0.000337) INSERT INTO groups (…)
Redirected to http://127.0.0.1:3000/admin/groups/4
Completed in 0.02443 (40 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00034 (1%) | 302 Found
[http://127.0.0.1/admin/groups]

it works… so the route works… but not in the test?

here’s whats in my routes.rb
map.resources :groups, :controller => ‘admin/groups’,
:name_prefix => “admin_”,
:path_prefix => “admin”

any ideas? the groups_url(id) is the only route that is failing in the
test.

thanks :slight_smile:

2

Your routes.rb looks funky. Are you running edge rails?
It’s worthwhile if you’re set on restful stuff.
I don’t think the name_prefix and path_prefix stuff is really necessary.

My nested routes read more like
map.resources :groups
groups.resources :admins
end

‘rake routes > /tmp/routes’ is really useful when working out routing
issues.
If you’re still learning restful routes, grab a copy of the beast forum
source code.
There’s a model diagram somewhere on flickr also.
That was a huge help when I was getting my head around nested routes.

  • Andy

Nola S.-5 wrote:

it “should redirect to the new group on successful save” do
"http://
Parameters: {“action”=>“update”, “id”=>“1”,

it works… so the route works… but not in the test?
thanks :slight_smile:

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I don’t think I can use edge rails now…they want to use latest stable
version.

I think if I were using Rails 2.0, i’d use a namespace for this.

I basically just want my group CRUD to be
controllers/admin/groups_controller,rb

but, it works otherwise, just the tests for group_url(id) fail so I
think thats kind of weird.

here’s my routes:

admin_groups GET /admin/groups/
{:action=>“index”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

formatted_admin_groups GET /admin/groups.:format/
{:action=>“index”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

POST /admin/groups/
{:action=>“create”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

POST /admin/groups.:format/
{:action=>“create”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

admin_new_group GET /admin/groups/new/
{:action=>“new”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

formatted_admin_new_group GET /admin/groups/new.:format/
{:action=>“new”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

admin_edit_group GET /admin/groups/:id;edit/
{:action=>“edit”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

formatted_admin_edit_group GET /admin/groups/:id.:format;edit/
{:action=>“edit”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

admin_group GET /admin/groups/:id/
{:action=>“show”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

formatted_admin_group GET /admin/groups/:id.:format/
{:action=>“show”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

PUT /admin/groups/:id/
{:action=>“update”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

PUT /admin/groups/:id.:format/
{:action=>“update”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

DELETE /admin/groups/:id/
{:action=>“destroy”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}

DELETE /admin/groups/:id.:format/
{:action=>“destroy”, :controller=>“admin/groups”}