Question

I have a custom error pages in my rails app testing the 404 error seems straight forward enough (get nonexistent page and do assert_match/select for certain text) but I’m wondering how to test the 500 error page.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

So what I found out was that I could do something like this in rspec

def other_error
   raise "ouch!"
end

it "renders 500 on Runtime error" do
  get :other_error
  response.should render_template("errors/500")
  response.status.should == 500
end