Question

I have a controller action that should only respond to AJAX calls:

def archive
  @model = MyEngine::MyModel.find(params[:id])
  if @model.update_attributes(params[:model])
    @success = true
  else
    @success = false
  end
  respond_to do |format|
    format.js
  end
end

I want to test that with something like:

it "should respond with javascript" do
  xhr :post, :archive, {:id => @model.to_param, :use_route => :my_engine}, valid_session
  response.should render_template('asi/events/archive', :format => 'js')
end

and

it "should not respond with html" do
  xhr :post, :archive, {:id => @event1.to_param, :use_route => :asi}, valid_session
  response.should_not render_template('asi/events/archive', :format => 'html')
end

But it seems like the assertions are mainly concerned with rendering the ‘archive’ template and doesn’t care about it’s extension. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong if there’s a better way to spec this?

Thanks for looking!

Answer 1

try with

response.should_not render_template 'asi/events/archive.html'

also, you can refactor your model a little doing

@success = @model.update_attributes(params[:model])

or

@success = @model.update_attributes(params[:model]) === true