Question

I’m writing a spec for my Rails controller, this is the action I’m testing:

def create   @course = Course.new(params[:course])   if @course.save then     #flash[:notice] = 'Course Created'     redirect_to courses_path   else     render :action => 'new', :status => 400   end end 

And this is the spec that validates it:

describe "POST /courses [Good Input]" do    it "should redirect to Courses index page after creation" do     @course.stub!(:save).and_return(true)     post :create     response.should be_success     response.should redirect_to(courses_path)   end  end 

Still I’m getting this error from RSpec:

‘CoursesController POST /courses [Good Input]

should redirect to Courses index page after creation’

FAILED

expected redirect to "/courses", got no redirect

Any ideas why this happens?

SOLVED

as rishavrastogi stated, should be_success expects a http code on the 2xx range, and a redirect falls into the 3xx range (actually its 302)

The assertion needs to be changed to => response.should be_redirect.

Although in this case, it’s redundant to check that the response is a redirect and then checking that redirects to an specific page, so that assertion is not needed anymore.

Answer 1

I’m not a RSpec-er either but I guess ‘response.should be_success’ shouldn’t be there because the response is actually a ‘HTTP redirect’ not ‘HTTP success’ … so try removing response.should be_success

Also change

 post :create 

to

 post :create, :course => {}