rspec users - Mar 2009 - Speccing module which should be included in controller

Dear all,

I have a module ApiAccessControl which is included in all controllers
which deal with the API. It sees if the users is valid, logs etc etc.

I want to see if this module does what it is supposed to but I dont
want to test that in every single controller dealing with the API. So
I created a file api_access_control_spec.rb with this content:

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

class ApiAccessControlTestController < ApplicationController
  include ApiAccessControl
end

describe ApiAccessControlTestController do
  describe "without valid credentials" do
    it "should respond with a 401 Unauthorized on the GET
''index''" do
      get "index"
      response.response_code.should == 401
    end
  end
end

This works by the grace that my routes file has a fallback map.connect
'':controller/:action/:id''. I never use that fallback only for
this
particular test. Is there anyway to get rid of this entry in my
routes.rb?

I tried something like this is a before block:
ActionController::Routing::RouteSet.new.add_route("index", :controller
=> "api_access_control_test", :action => "index")

But that doesn''t seem to work. How do you guys test this sort of
stuff?

Harm

On 18 Mar 2009, at 12:03, Harm wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a module ApiAccessControl which is included in all controllers
> which deal with the API. It sees if the users is valid, logs etc etc.
>
> I want to see if this module does what it is supposed to but I dont
> want to test that in every single controller dealing with the API. So
> I created a file api_access_control_spec.rb with this content:
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../spec_helper''
>
> class ApiAccessControlTestController < ApplicationController
>  include ApiAccessControl
> end
>
> describe ApiAccessControlTestController do
>  describe "without valid credentials" do
>    it "should respond with a 401 Unauthorized on the GET
''index''" do
>      get "index"
>      response.response_code.should == 401
>    end
>  end
> end
>
> This works by the grace that my routes file has a fallback map.connect
> '':controller/:action/:id''. I never use that fallback only
for this
> particular test. Is there anyway to get rid of this entry in my
> routes.rb?
>
> I tried something like this is a before block:
> ActionController::Routing::RouteSet.new.add_route("index",
:controller
> => "api_access_control_test", :action => "index")
>
> But that doesn''t seem to work. How do you guys test this sort of
> stuff?
>
> Harm
See this thread:
http://www.nabble.com/How-to-Spec-a-Module-to-be-used-in-a-Controller-td20128726.html

It''s slow though.

Matt Wynne
http://blog.mattwynne.net
http://www.songkick.com

On Mar 18, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Harm wrote:
> This works by the grace that my routes file has a fallback map.connect
> '':controller/:action/:id''. I never use that fallback only
for this
> particular test. Is there anyway to get rid of this entry in my
> routes.rb?
map.connect '':controller/:action/:id'' if RAILS_ENV ==
''test''

yahtzee