Question

Getting really bizarre rspec behavior in one of my controller specs.

It’s best to illustrate. In rubymine, when I set a breakpoint, this happens:

#rspec test
describe Api::V1::UsersController do
  let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
  describe "#show" do
    it "responds successfully" do
      get 'show', id: user.id
      response.should be_success
    end
end

#controller
class Api::V1::UsersController < AuthenticatedController
    def show # !!! RubyMine breakpoint will stop execution here !!!
      user = User.find(params[:id])
      user_hash = User.information(user, current_user)

      respond_to do |format|
        format.json { render json: user_hash.to_json }
      end
end

So the above works as expected.

But, now this test fails.

#rspec test
describe UsersController do
  let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user, is_admin: false) }
  describe "#show" do
    it "redirects non-admin" do
      get 'index'
      response.should redirect_to user_path(user)
    end
end

#controller
class UsersController < AuthenticatedController
  def index # !!! Breakpoint is never hit !!!
    @users = User.all
    respond_to do |format|
      if current_user.is_admin
        format.html
        format.json { render json: @users }
      else
        redirect_to user_path(current_user) and return
      end
    end
end
By the way, this is the result:
Expected response to be a redirect to <http://test.host/users/625> but was a redirect to <https://test.host/users>

None of my breakpoints in controller methods in UsersController are hit. BUT all controller methods are hit if I set breakpoints in API::V1::UsersController.

Any guidance is greatly appreciated. I’m really at a loss of how to debug this.

Answer 1

Sorry, this question was more out of frustation than anything. But I finally figured out what was going on. Hint: tailing the test.log is a good idea.

I was forcing ssl on the controller. The request rspec sent is http. ActionController::ForceSSL redirects the request to https and to the same controller#action. However, at this point, the rspec test was finished and failed the test because it only sees the redirection back to the same controller#action.

So in a before(:each) or something similar, use this: request.env['HTTPS'] = 'on'. All tests work as expected now.