rspec users - May 2007 - content_for

Any ideas how I would go about writing specs for views which make use
of content_for?

I''d like, for example, to be able to specify that ABC view places XYZ
in the sidebar, which I do using content_for(:sidebar).

Am I missing something obvious?

Kyle

On 5/23/07, Kyle Hargraves <philodespotos at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Any ideas how I would go about writing specs for views which make use
> of content_for?
>
> I''d like, for example, to be able to specify that ABC view places
XYZ
> in the sidebar, which I do using content_for(:sidebar).
>
> Am I missing something obvious?
>
> Kyle
I have the same problem, several of my views use content_for to
populate a sidebar. How can I write examples for them?

/ CJ

What we usually do in this case is render the view with the layout and then
check the contents of the sidebar div. However, this does lead to having to
stub out additional things you don''t care about in your example. If
anyone
has a better plan I''d like to know, too.

Moses

On 6/4/07, Carl-Johan Kihlbom <kihlbom at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 5/23/07, Kyle Hargraves <philodespotos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any ideas how I would go about writing specs for views which make use
> > of content_for?
> >
> > I''d like, for example, to be able to specify that ABC view
places XYZ
> > in the sidebar, which I do using content_for(:sidebar).
> >
> > Am I missing something obvious?
> >
> > Kyle
>
> I have the same problem, several of my views use content_for to
> populate a sidebar. How can I write examples for them?
>
> / CJ
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On 6/4/07, Moses Hohman <moses.hohman at gmail.com>
wrote:
> What we usually do in this case is render the view with the layout and then
> check the contents of the sidebar div. However, this does lead to having to
> stub out additional things you don''t care about in your example.
If anyone
> has a better plan I''d like to know, too.
>
> Moses
Moses, this doesn''t work for me. I tried the following:

response.should have_tag("div#sidebar")

That didn''t work (no matching tag found). I also tried similar
approaches to matching tags within the sidebar, without any luck.

Any ideas?

Okey, here''s how I solved it:

In spec_helper.rb I defined the following method:

    def content_for(name)
      response.template.instance_variable_get("@content_for_#{name}")
    end

Then in my examples I can just use this:

    content_for(:sidebar).should have_tag(''ul.people
li.person'', 2)

If anyone has a cleaner solution, please let me know.

/ CJ