Question

I am trying to avoid using my session[:referred_by], and would like to use the request.referrer. However, my RSpec tests fail because the TestRequest does not store a request.referrer

So I have to do the following in order for Rspec tests to work. Is there a way to make it better:

referrer = request.referrer ? request.referrer : '/'
redirect_to referrer, :alert => error_message

Answer 1

Mock it:

specify 'foo' do
  controller.request.should_receive(:referer).and_return('http://example.com')
  # get whatever
end

Or if you don’t care if it doesn’t get called, stub it:

controller.request.stub referer: 'http://example.com'