Question

I’m learning rails and have come across a problem with an Rspec. I have the following test for a controller:

describe PostsController, "creating a new post" do
  it "should redirect and show the post" do
    Post.stub!(:save).and_return(true)
    post "create"
    response.should redirect_to :action => "show"
  end
end

When I run this test I get the following failure:

PostsController creating a new post should redirect and show the post
Failure/Error: response.should redirect_to :action => "show"
ActionController::RoutingError:
  No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"posts"}
  # ./spec/controllers/posts_controller_spec.rb:8:in `block (2 levels) in <top       (required)>'

Yet my when I check my routes I see my show action for my posts controller:

post GET    /posts/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"show", :controller=>"posts"}

I’m probably missing something very simple but struggling to find it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You forgot the id.

I usually write

response.should redirect_to(post_path(assigns[:post])