Rails - Jan 2006 - Help needed using assigns() functionality in functional test

Accidentally posted this to the engines group first...dang computers :-)



I''m trying to create a functional test where the controller action (for
now, anyway) breaks apart a string and populates intermediate variables
with the results. I want to check the intermediate vars in my test, so I
tried the following

(in the controller)

def string_action
  # do some processing, etc.
  @string_segment = "howdy"
end

(in the unit test)
def test_the_string_doohicky
  post :string_action, ... some params here, etc.
  assert_equal "howdy", assigns["string_segment"]
end

The assigns[] always comes up nil, so I must be missing something here.
Any pointers?

TIA,
Keith

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Try assings(:string_segment) rather.

> (in the unit test)
> def test_the_string_doohicky
>   post :string_action, ... some params here, etc.
>   assert_equal "howdy", assigns["string_segment"]
> end
> 
> The assigns[] always comes up nil, so I must be missing something here.
> Any pointers?
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Joerg Diekmann wrote:
> Try assings(:string_segment) rather.
> 
> 
>> (in the unit test)
>> def test_the_string_doohicky
>>   post :string_action, ... some params here, etc.
>>   assert_equal "howdy", assigns["string_segment"]
>> end
>> 
>> The assigns[] always comes up nil, so I must be missing something here.
>> Any pointers?
Ok, so I tried that and it worked. Just for fun, I went back to the 
other method, and this time IT worked. I keep forgetting that old 
saying,

       "Never code Ruby while drinking tequila".

:-)

(Actually, have changed a number of things in code since posting, so 
maybe I accidentally fixed something in the process...)

Thanks for the help.
Keith

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