Question

I’m always writing tests to check my controller restricts people from certain actions depending on their status i.e. logged in, admin? etc
Regardless of whether its a get to :index or a puts to :create the code is always the same. I’m trying to refactor this so that i have one method such as

should_redirect_unauthenticated_to_login_action(request, action)

and call it like so

should_redirect_unauthenticated_to_login_action(:get, :index)  => get :index

But not sure how to dynamically call the various response methods rails provides for functional tests which seem to live in the module ActionController

I mucked around with

module = Kernel.const_get("ActionController")
module::TestProcess.get
NoMethodError: undefined method `get' for ActionController::TestProcess:Module

can anyone help (im very new to dynamic calling in ruby)

Answer 1

This goes in your test helper somewhere, or in any module that you can mix into your functional tests.

def should_redirect_unauthenticated_to_login_action(http_method, action, params = {})
  send http_method, action, params
  should_be_cool_and_stuff # assertions or whatever else goes here.
end