Rails - Sep 2006 - Absolute urls don't work in functional tests (with 'fix')

Why is it that I can''t do "get posts_url" in my post
functional
testing?  posts_url correctly evaluates to "http://test.host/ 
posts" (*), but any attempt to get this url fails with an  
UnknownAction.  Similarly, "get ''/posts''", "get
''/posts/index''" etc
all fail.  "get ''index''" works fine.

Which may sound trivial, but it seems silly to not be able to use   
"get new_post_url" with your restful controllers.

The main reason it''s falling over seems to be that the TestProcess  
module is very action-based - it doesn''t expect to see the full  
"http://test.host/posts/index" url.  I''ve hacked in a
workaround that
strips out everything but the action:


module ActionController::TestProcess
   alias_method :orig_process, :process
   def process(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil)
     #Strip out occurrences of (eg) ''http://test.host/posts'',
leaving
us with just the action.
     nameless_action = action.to_s.gsub(/http:\/\/# 
{@request.host_with_port}\/#{@controller.class.controller_path}\/?/,
'''')
     nameless_action = ''index'' if nameless_action.blank?
     orig_process(nameless_action, parameters, session, flash)
   end
end

- but it''s pretty ugly, and I suspect it''ll break on all but
the
simplest routes.  Can anyone else do better?


Jon





* - once you''ve done the "get :index" hack -
http://rails.techno-
weenie.net/tip/2006/7/22/test-named-routes-or-url_for-link_to)

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On 6 Sep 2006, at 13:17, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
> Why is it that I can''t do "get posts_url" in my post
functional
> testing?  posts_url correctly evaluates to "http://test.host/
> posts" (*), but any attempt to get this url fails with an
> UnknownAction.  Similarly, "get ''/posts''",
"get ''/posts/index''" etc
> all fail.  "get ''index''" works fine.
>
> Which may sound trivial, but it seems silly to not be able to use
> "get new_post_url" with your restful controllers.
>
> The main reason it''s falling over seems to be that the TestProcess
> module is very action-based - it doesn''t expect to see the full
> "http://test.host/posts/index" url.  I''ve hacked in a
workaround that
> strips out everything but the action:
>
>
> module ActionController::TestProcess
>    alias_method :orig_process, :process
>    def process(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil)
>      #Strip out occurrences of (eg)
''http://test.host/posts'', leaving
> us with just the action.
>      nameless_action = action.to_s.gsub(/http:\/\/#
> {@request.host_with_port}\/#{@controller.class.controller_path} 
> \/?/, '''')
>      nameless_action = ''index'' if nameless_action.blank?
>      orig_process(nameless_action, parameters, session, flash)
>    end
> end
>
> - but it''s pretty ugly, and I suspect it''ll break on all
but the
> simplest routes.  Can anyone else do better?
Hmph, well that doesn''t work.  It falls over on a number of restful  
things like post_url(@post) ("http://test.host/posts/6")

Any other bright ideas?

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