Test Ruby-on-Rails controller with RSpec and different route name
- by jhwist
I have a Rails model named Xpmodule with a corresponding controller XpmoduleController.
class XpmoduleController < ApplicationController
def index
@xpmodule = Xpmodule.find(params[:module_id])
end
def subscribe
flash[:notice] = "You are now subscribed to #{params[:subscription][:title]}"
redirect_to :action => :index
end
end
The original intent was to name the model Module which for obvious reasons doesn't work. However I still want to have the URLs look like /module/4711/ therefore I added this to my routes.rb:
map.connect '/module/:module_id', :controller => 'xpmodule', :action => 'index'
map.connect '/module/:module_id/subscribe', :controller => 'xpmodule',
:action => 'subscribe'
Now I want to test this controller with Rspec:
describe XpmoduleController do
fixtures :xpmodules
context "index" do
it "should assign the current xpmodule" do
xpm = mock_model(Xpmodule)
Xpmodule.should_receive(:find).and_return(xpm)
get "index"
assigns[:xpmodule].should be_an_instance_of(Xpmodule)
end
end
end
for which I get No route matches {:action=>"index", :controller=>"xpmodule"}. Which of course is sort-of right, but I don't want to add this route just for testing purposes. Is there a way to tell Rspec to call a different URL in get?
