Rails - Aug 2006 - REST and functional tests

Just playing around with converting an apps to the new REST goodness in 
edge rails, and I''m trying to work out how to convert/write the 
functional tests.

Is the recommended way to explicitly use the actions (e.g. get :show, 
:id => ...; post :create,..., etc) and test the routes separately, or 
duplicate the request, in which case how is that done get "/", :id
=> 5
doesn''t work as I think the first parameter is expected to be an
action?
Probably really obvious but I''m just not seeing it at the moment.

Chris,
  For functional testing the same methods work fine for restful
routing.  Check out simple example below.

class CustomersControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  fixtures :customers

  def setup
    @controller = CustomersController.new
    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new
  end

  def test_index
    get :index
    assert_response :success
    assert_template ''customers/index''
  end

  ...

  def test_edit
    get :edit, :id => customers(:customer1).id
    assert_response :success
    assert_template ''customers/edit''
  end

 ... etc.

end

Hope this helps,
Zack

On 8/2/06, Chris T <ctmailinglists@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Just playing around with converting an apps to the new REST goodness in
> edge rails, and I''m trying to work out how to convert/write the
> functional tests.
>
> Is the recommended way to explicitly use the actions (e.g. get :show,
> :id => ...; post :create,..., etc) and test the routes separately, or
> duplicate the request, in which case how is that done get "/",
:id => 5
> doesn''t work as I think the first parameter is expected to be an
action?
> Probably really obvious but I''m just not seeing it at the moment.
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