Question

I’m trying to write a request spec for a custom action on one of my controllers.

My routes.rb is like this:

controller :profile, :path => 'profile' do
  match 'view_friends/:circle_id', :to => :view_friends, :via => [:get], :as => 'view_friends'
end
resources :profile

I want to visit this action, and was hoping that as I can use

visit profile_path
visit new_profile_path 
etc

That I could do

visit view_friends_profile_path 

However this gives me the “error undefined local variable or method “

I can get the desired behavior by writing

visit profile_path.to_s + '/view_friends/' + circle.id.to_s

But that is horrible. What am I missing to be able to name a custom action?

edit:

Relevant output from rake routes

   view_friends GET      (/:locale)/profile/view_friends/:circle_id(.:format)       {:controller=>"profile", :action=>"view_friends"}

Answer 1

Firstly I’m a bit confused. Usually in rails when you make a controller, the controller has a plural name. For instance if your model name is Profile, then you would have a ProfilesController. The way you are writing your question implies that your controller is named ProfileController. Seems kind of unusual, so if you could clarify that would be helpful. That being said, try this:

# in routes.rb
resources :profile do
  member do
    match 'view_friends/:circle_id' => :view_friends, :via => :get, :as => 'view_friends'
  end
end

Should produce what you want. You can access it now by doing this:

view_friends_profile_path(profile_id, circle_id)