Question

I’m writing an integration test for a rails application using Capybara within Rspec. After filling out a form, the user presses submit.

If I run the test I get:

expected there to be content “Welcome to course builder” in “You are
being redirected.”

I am trying to test the resulted page content, here is the test:

describe PagesController do

  describe "Quiz testing in chapter" do

    def page_view
       Capybara::Node::Simple.new(@response.body)
    end

    render_views
    login_student

    it "should fail if user chosen wrong answer" do
      page= create_quiz_page_with_two_choices_first_correct
      post :answer_quiz, :page_id=>page.id, :submitted_single_answer=>'2'
      page_view.should have_content("Welcome to course builder")

    end
  end
end

in the PagesController

def answer_quiz
 ...
 respond_to do |format|
   format.html { redirect_to page }
   format.json { head :ok }
 end
end

I just started using Capybara, so am I missing something obvious here? Why am I stuck with the redirect response?

Thanks!

hopewise

Answer 1

login_student needs to go in a before block:

before(:each) do
  login_student
end

However even that probably won’t fix the problem. When using Capybara it is recommended to actually login by visiting the login page for each example, so:

before(:each) do
  visit login_path # log in test user
end

it "should do something awesome" do
  visit "/awesome"
  page.should have_content("You rock!")
end

It’s also helpful to write a special case to handle logins in the test environment, so you can avoid having to create a user for test logins.