Question

I’ve created a test with

rails g integration_test index --webrat

This creates the file:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Indices" do
  describe "GET /indices" do
    it "works! (now write some real specs)" do
      visit indices_path
      response.status.should be(200)
    end
  end
end

That’s all fine, but the only problem is that this test fails even though indices_path exists:

Failure/Error: response.status.should be(200)
NoMethodError:
  undefined method `status' for nil:NilClass

So it seems like response is nil.

I can still use page (e.g. page.should have_content works perfectly), but not response. I’d really just like to know that the response status was 200. Can I use something other than response?

Answer 1

If page is available, it looks like you may have capybara instead of webrat. You can try this:

page.status_code.should be 200