Rails - May 2006 - testing for flash.now values

Is there any way in a functional test to get the value of the flash hash 
if the value was set using flash.now? It doesn''t appear to be visible
in
flash in the test. Example:

Controller:

def index
  flash.now[''notice''] = ''this is the index''
end

Functional Test:

def test_index_flash
  get :index
  assert_equal ''this is the index'',
flash[''notice'']
end

This will fail with the message:
<"this is the index"> expected but was
<nil>.

Any ideas? I''ve seen this come up in the mailing lists before, 
but can''t seem to find an answer or workaround. Or maybe just 
an explanation -- why does this happen?

Thx

Did you learn anything on this? Would like to know myself.

Isak


On 5/5/06, Kian <kianwright@pfima.com> wrote:
> Is there any way in a functional test to get the value of the flash hash
> if the value was set using flash.now? It doesn''t appear to be
visible in
> flash in the test. Example:
>
> Controller:
>
> def index
>   flash.now[''notice''] = ''this is the
index''
> end
>
> Functional Test:
>
> def test_index_flash
>   get :index
>   assert_equal ''this is the index'',
flash[''notice'']
> end
>
> This will fail with the message:
> <"this is the index"> expected but was
> <nil>.
>
> Any ideas? I''ve seen this come up in the mailing lists before,
> but can''t seem to find an answer or workaround. Or maybe just
> an explanation -- why does this happen?
>
> Thx
>
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