Question

I’m trying to do this:

• How do I test a controller with rspec-rails?

My test is as follows:

describe "User pages" do

subject { page }

describe "edit" do
  let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
  before do
    log_in user 
    #visit edit_user_path(user) <-- did not work
  end

describe "page" do
  it "should render edit page" do
    get :edit, :id => user.id
    should have_selector('h1',    text: "Update")
    should have_selector('h2',    text: user.username)
    should have_selector('title', text: "Edit user")
  end
end

describe "with invalid information" do
  before { click_button "Save changes" }
  it { should have_content('error') }
end

end

I tried adding get :edit, :id => user.id but it throws an exception:

Failure/Error: get :edit, :id => user.id
 ArgumentError:
   bad argument (expected URI object or URI string)

Is there something else I’m missing?

Answer 1

I ended up doing this:

visit edit_user_path(user.id) 

I’m unsure from reading about things though which method (get vs visit) is preferred.