rspec users - Aug 2009 - A passing test that I expected be a fail - any suggestions please?

Just started to learn the basics of rspec.
Before doing anything serious I wanted to get to know the set-up and
commands to run tests.
I''m pretty sure that is all OK now with respect to gems and my test
environment. It will run the tests but it seems to get the wrong
answer.

I have a controller with  a single action ''index''.

I wanted to observe a failing test so I created a super-simple test as
follows:

require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
''/../spec_helper'')

describe Test4Controller do

describe "responding to show" do
  it "show should be successful" do
      get :show
      response.should be_success
    end
 end
end

There is NO action called ''show'' in my controller but the test
passes
successfully. On running the app the response code is 404 not 200.
Could anyone please explain what''s happening.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:47 AM, kendog<brian at kendog.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
> Just started to learn the basics of rspec.
> Before doing anything serious I wanted to get to know the set-up and
> commands to run tests.
> I''m pretty sure that is all OK now with respect to gems and my
test
> environment. It will run the tests but it seems to get the wrong
> answer.
>
> I have a controller with ?a single action ''index''.
>
> I wanted to observe a failing test so I created a super-simple test as
> follows:
>
> require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
''/../spec_helper'')
>
> describe Test4Controller do
>
> describe "responding to show" do
integrate_views
> ?it "show should be successful" do
> ? ? ?get :show
> ? ? ?response.should be_success
> ? ?end
> ?end
> end
>
> There is NO action called ''show'' in my controller but the
test passes
> successfully. On running the app the response code is 404 not 200.
> Could anyone please explain what''s happening.
You''ve hit a bug in rspec-rails when running in the default isolation
mode.

https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/860-rspec-rails-swallows-missing-action

This will be fixed for the next release, but in the mean time you''ll
get the expected behaviour if you add integrate_views at the top of
the example group, as shown above.

HTH,
David