Question

I’m running this test on rspec…

it 'get email is successful' do
  get :email
  response.should be_success
  response.should render_template('email')

end

Where the controller code looks like this..

def email
  respond_to do |format|
     format.js 
  end
end

On my terminal I’m returning with….

3) PostsController checking to see if response for post email is successful
 Failure/Error: response.should be_success
   expected success? to return true, got false
 # ./spec/controllers/posts_controller_spec.rb:116:in `block (3 levels) in <top    
(required)>'

What am I missing here to make the test work? It has to be something obvious. My view file is titled email.js.erb. This action is meant for an AJAX call.

Answer 1

try:

xhr :get, :email

your request seems not to take into account the expected response type. In Rspec, this is the way to do it if you want to simulate AJAX (XHR) requests.