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Michael Johnston

2006-Nov-30 08:48 UTC

[rspec-users] response is null when using should_render_rjs

I''m trying to use rspec to test a controller that has ajax.

I have the following action:

   def change_ad_type_form
     render :update do |page|
       page.replace_html ''ad_sub_form'', :partial =>
''text''
     end
   end

and the following spec:

   specify "should return Text subform on AJAX request to  
change_ad_type_form" do
     controller.should_render_rjs :page,  
''ad_sub_form'', :replace_html, ''stuff''
     get ''change_ad_type_form''
   end

which result is the following:

1)
NoMethodError in ''When creating a new ad, the ad_controller should  
return Text subform on AJAX request to change_ad_type_form''
nil does not respond to `rjs'' or `has_rjs?''
/Users/lasto/clients/ibc/project_n/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/ 
rails/render_matcher.rb:61:in `should_render_rjs''
/Users/lasto/clients/ibc/project_n/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/ 
rails/context/controller.rb:63:in `should_render_rjs''
./spec/controllers/ad_controller_spec.rb:75

(because response is null when it gets to render_matcher)

What am I doing wrong?


Cheers,
Michael

Mathias Biilmann Christensen

2006-Nov-30 10:04 UTC

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And a response to my own question :) :

I put this in the end of my view spec:

module ViewSpecsHelper
     def current_user
       nil
     end
end

and then used render => ''controller/template'', :helper
=> :view_specs

That worked - should be easy to use something similar to that to mock  
error_messages_for as well

Regards,
Mathias



On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Mathias Biilmann Christensen
wrote:> Thanks a lot - that helped a great deal.
>
> I still seem to have problems with helper methods that are not  
> defined in a helper module.  In my Application controller I have a  
> current_user method and then uses "  helper_method :current_user"
> to be make it usable for my views.  Any way to stub that method in  
> a view test? (I suspect a way to do this would also solve Michael  
> Johnston''s error_messages_for problem)
>
> Regards,
> Mathias
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 1:05 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/06, Mathias Biilmann Christensen <info at mathias- 
>> biilmann.net> wrote:
>>> Great to finally having view specs work with edge rails!
>>>
>>> To bad I can''t actually use them, since I use helper
methods in my
>>> views. Has anybody gotten calls to helper methods to work in view
>>> tests under Rails 1.2 RC1?
>>>
>>> Currently I get "undefined method `crumbs'' for
#<#<Class:0x340b70c>:
>>> 0x340ab40>" when the view is calling the crumbs helper
(<%= crumbs
>>> (@var) %>)
>>>
>>> Hope there''s a solution out there!
>>
>> There IS!!!!! Incomplete though they are, the specs are the best
>> source of documentation for questions like this. Take a look at
>> vendor/plugins/rspec/spec/view_spec_spec. It has the answer to your
>> question. I''ll give you the highlights, but check out the spec
if
>> you''re unsure of anything:
>>
>> context "/some/template" do
>>   setup do
>>     render ''/some/template'', :helper =>
:some_other #_helper will
>> get appended
>>   end
>>   ...
>> end
>>
>> OR, if you need more than one:
>>
>> context "/some/template" do
>>   setup do
>>     render ''/some/template'', :helpers =>  
>> [:one, :another, :yet_another]
>>   end
>>   ...
>> end
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mathias
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 7:35 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/28/06, Micah Martin <micah at 8thlight.com> wrote:
>>>>> That did the trick.  Thanks Pat.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Micah Martin
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Pat Maddox wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically in the mean time, just do
>>>>> render :partial =>
"controller_name/partial_name"
>>>>>
>>>>> So like if the partial is named "person" and
it''s under the
>>>>> "people"
>>>>> views dir, it''d be
>>>>> render :partial => "people/person"
>>>>>
>>>>> That''ll work until we get it fixed in the plugin.
>>>>
>>>> We got it fixed in the plugin. In trunk (rev 1174).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> rspec-users mailing list
>>>>> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
>>>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
>>>>>
>>>>>
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David Chelimsky

2006-Nov-30 12:19 UTC

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On 11/30/06, Michael Johnston <lastobelus at mac.com>
wrote:> I''m trying to use rspec to test a controller that has ajax.
>
> I have the following action:
>
>    def change_ad_type_form
>      render :update do |page|
>        page.replace_html ''ad_sub_form'', :partial =>
''text''
>      end
>    end
>
> and the following spec:
>
>    specify "should return Text subform on AJAX request to
> change_ad_type_form" do
>      controller.should_render_rjs :page,
> ''ad_sub_form'', :replace_html, ''stuff''
>      get ''change_ad_type_form''
>    end
Using :page in the should_render_rjs call is specifically for elements
accessed via page[:element_name]. You need to either remove :page from
your spec or change the implementation to read:

page[:ad_sub_form].replace_html :partial => ''text''

Cheers,
David>
> which result is the following:
>
> 1)
> NoMethodError in ''When creating a new ad, the ad_controller should
> return Text subform on AJAX request to change_ad_type_form''
> nil does not respond to `rjs'' or `has_rjs?''
> /Users/lasto/clients/ibc/project_n/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/
> rails/render_matcher.rb:61:in `should_render_rjs''
> /Users/lasto/clients/ibc/project_n/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/
> rails/context/controller.rb:63:in `should_render_rjs''
> ./spec/controllers/ad_controller_spec.rb:75
>
> (because response is null when it gets to render_matcher)
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
> _______________________________________________
> rspec-users mailing list
> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
>

Michael Johnston

2006-Nov-30 13:07 UTC

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I had tried it without :page and got the same error, and I also  
switched to the syntax you suggested but still get the same error. So  
something else is going on there. When I have time I''ll sandbox it  
and try to track it down.

For now unfortunately I have to switch from my newly burgeoning BDD  
mode to my tried-and-true SSCT* mode.

Thanks,
Michael

*show something [to the] client tomorrow


On 30-Nov-06, at 4:19 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Michael Johnston <lastobelus at mac.com> wrote:
>> I''m trying to use rspec to test a controller that has ajax.
>>
>> I have the following action:
>>
>>    def change_ad_type_form
>>      render :update do |page|
>>        page.replace_html ''ad_sub_form'', :partial
=> ''text''
>>      end
>>    end
>>
>> and the following spec:
>>
>>    specify "should return Text subform on AJAX request to
>> change_ad_type_form" do
>>      controller.should_render_rjs :page,
>> ''ad_sub_form'', :replace_html,
''stuff''
>>      get ''change_ad_type_form''
>>    end
>
> Using :page in the should_render_rjs call is specifically for elements
> accessed via page[:element_name]. You need to either remove :page from
> your spec or change the implementation to read:
>
> page[:ad_sub_form].replace_html :partial => ''text''
>
> Cheers,
> David

David Chelimsky

2006-Dec-01 09:37 UTC

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On 11/30/06, Mathias Biilmann Christensen <info at mathias-biilmann.net>
wrote:> And a response to my own question :) :
>
> I put this in the end of my view spec:
>
> module ViewSpecsHelper
>      def current_user
>        nil
>      end
> end
>
> and then used render => ''controller/template'', :helper
=> :view_specs
Cool! Nice solution.

David

>
> That worked - should be easy to use something similar to that to mock
> error_messages_for as well
>
> Regards,
> Mathias
>
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Mathias Biilmann Christensen wrote:
> > Thanks a lot - that helped a great deal.
> >
> > I still seem to have problems with helper methods that are not
> > defined in a helper module.  In my Application controller I have a
> > current_user method and then uses "  helper_method
:current_user"
> > to be make it usable for my views.  Any way to stub that method in
> > a view test? (I suspect a way to do this would also solve Michael
> > Johnston''s error_messages_for problem)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mathias
> >
> >
> > On Nov 30, 2006, at 1:05 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/29/06, Mathias Biilmann Christensen <info at mathias-
> >> biilmann.net> wrote:
> >>> Great to finally having view specs work with edge rails!
> >>>
> >>> To bad I can''t actually use them, since I use helper
methods in my
> >>> views. Has anybody gotten calls to helper methods to work in
view
> >>> tests under Rails 1.2 RC1?
> >>>
> >>> Currently I get "undefined method `crumbs'' for
#<#<Class:0x340b70c>:
> >>> 0x340ab40>" when the view is calling the crumbs helper
(<%= crumbs
> >>> (@var) %>)
> >>>
> >>> Hope there''s a solution out there!
> >>
> >> There IS!!!!! Incomplete though they are, the specs are the best
> >> source of documentation for questions like this. Take a look at
> >> vendor/plugins/rspec/spec/view_spec_spec. It has the answer to
your
> >> question. I''ll give you the highlights, but check out the
spec if
> >> you''re unsure of anything:
> >>
> >> context "/some/template" do
> >>   setup do
> >>     render ''/some/template'', :helper =>
:some_other #_helper will
> >> get appended
> >>   end
> >>   ...
> >> end
> >>
> >> OR, if you need more than one:
> >>
> >> context "/some/template" do
> >>   setup do
> >>     render ''/some/template'', :helpers =>
> >> [:one, :another, :yet_another]
> >>   end
> >>   ...
> >> end
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> David
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Mathias
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 7:35 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 11/28/06, Micah Martin <micah at 8thlight.com>
wrote:
> >>>>> That did the trick.  Thanks Pat.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Micah Martin
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Pat Maddox wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Basically in the mean time, just do
> >>>>> render :partial =>
"controller_name/partial_name"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So like if the partial is named "person" and
it''s under the
> >>>>> "people"
> >>>>> views dir, it''d be
> >>>>> render :partial => "people/person"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That''ll work until we get it fixed in the
plugin.
> >>>>
> >>>> We got it fixed in the plugin. In trunk (rev 1174).
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> David
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> rspec-users mailing list
> >>>>> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> >>>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> rspec-users mailing list
> >>>> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> >>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> rspec-users mailing list
> >>> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
> >>>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> rspec-users mailing list
> >> rspec-users at rubyforge.org
> >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
> >
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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