Question

Here is the failed rspec code:

require 'spec_helper'

describe MainMenuController do

  describe "GET 'first_page'" do
    it "should be successful" do
      get 'first_page'
      response.should be_success
    end
  end

end

Here is the controller code:

class MainMenuController < ApplicationController
  def first_page
    session[:page_step] = 1
    redirect_to session[:page1]
  end

end

The spec error is:

 MainMenuController GET 'first_page' should be successful
     Failure/Error: response.should be_success
       expected success? to return true, got false
     # ./spec/controllers/main_menu_controller_spec.rb:8:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

The app runs fine without problem and the error may be caused by the rspec code which is automatically generated by the rails. Any idea about the problem? Thanks.

Answer 1

I guess the matcher is looking for a status 200.

But since you redirect, it gets 301.

Thus it fails.

Try:

response.status.should eq 301

You’d have some more details.