I have a test that fails and I just cannot figure out how to get it working.
It’s the it “should have the right title” test in the “POST Create” section.
It’s a Rails 3.1 app, heres my gem file for testing:
group :test do
gem 'turn', :require => false
gem 'minitest'
gem 'spork', '> 0.9.0.rc'
gem 'guard-spork'
gem 'guard-rspec'
gem 'webrat'
gem 'factory_girl_rails', '> 1.0'
gem 'mocha'
gem 'rspec-rails'
end
My Posts Controller
class PostsController < ApplicationController
def new
@post = Post.new
@title = "Create a new post"
respond_to do |format|
format.html # new.html.erb
format.json { render json: @post }
end
end
def show
@post = Post.find(params[:id])
@title = @post.title
respond_to do |format|
format.html # show.html.erb
format.json { render json: @post }
end
end
def create
@post = Post.new(params[:post])
respond_to do |format|
if @post.save
format.html { redirect_to @post, notice: 'Post was successfully created.' }
format.json { render json: @post, status: :created, location: @post }
else
format.html { render action: "new" }
format.json { render json: @post.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
@title = "Create a new post"
end
end
end
end
Rspec tests – I have added render_views to file.
describe "POST 'create'" do
describe "SUCCESS" do
before(:each) do
@attr = { :title => "Foo", :content => "Bar" }
end
it "should create a new post" do
lambda do
post :create, :post => @attr
flash[:notice].should_not be_nil
end.should change(Post, :count).by(1)
end
it "should redirect to the post show page and show success message" do
post :create, :post => @attr
flash[:notice].should =~ /post was successfully created/i
response.should redirect_to post_path(assigns(:post))
end
it "should have the right title" do
post :create, :post => @attr
response.should have_selector("title", :content => assigns(:post).title)
end
end
end
Only the last test fails.
Error messages:
Finished in 6.49 seconds
11 examples, 1 failure
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/controllers/posts_controller_spec.rb:62 # PostsController POST 'create' SUCCESS should have the right title
Running: spec/controllers/posts_controller_spec.rb
.......F...
Failures:
1) PostsController POST 'create' SUCCESS should have the right title
Failure/Error: response.should have_selector("title", :content => assigns(:post).title)
expected following output to contain a <title>Foo</title> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html><body>You are being <a href="http://test.host/posts/980190963">redirected</a>.</body></html>
# ./spec/controllers/posts_controller_spec.rb:64:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
Any help as to why this fails would be greatly appreciated.
You’re willing something that simply won’t happen.
Because you redirect, the response is:
It would be better to test the new object itself.