rspec users - Aug 2007 - Render template not matching absolute path

Hi

I have a simple controller method like this:

class StylesheetsController < ApplicationController
   layout  nil
   session :off

   def gap
     site = Site.find_by_hostname(request.host)
     @colours = site.colours
     respond_to do |accepts|
       accepts.css { render :file => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/ 
stylesheets/gap.rcss" }
     end
   end
end

And I want to test that it renders the gap.rcss file, but my spec,

     it "should render the gap.rcss template" do
       do_get
       response.should render_template("gap.rcss")
     end

fails with this error:

Expected "gap.rcss", got
"/Users/ashleymoran/Documents/Development/
YourMoney/trunk/src/config/../app/views/stylesheets/gap.rcss"

I don''t remember this failing in 1.0.5, but it''s been a while
since I
worked on this project so might be just be my bad memory.  Am I doing  
something wrong or can you not spec "render :file" with
render_template?

Thanks
Ashley

On 8/21/07, Ashley Moran <work at ashleymoran.me.uk>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a simple controller method like this:
>
> class StylesheetsController < ApplicationController
>    layout  nil
>    session :off
>
>    def gap
>      site = Site.find_by_hostname(request.host)
>      @colours = site.colours
>      respond_to do |accepts|
>        accepts.css { render :file => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/
> stylesheets/gap.rcss" }
>      end
>    end
> end
>
> And I want to test that it renders the gap.rcss file, but my spec,
>
>      it "should render the gap.rcss template" do
>        do_get
>        response.should render_template("gap.rcss")
>      end
>
> fails with this error:
>
> Expected "gap.rcss", got
"/Users/ashleymoran/Documents/Development/
> YourMoney/trunk/src/config/../app/views/stylesheets/gap.rcss"
>
> I don''t remember this failing in 1.0.5, but it''s been a
while since I
> worked on this project so might be just be my bad memory.  Am I doing
> something wrong or can you not spec "render :file" with
render_template?
This changed in 1.0.0, but not since.

Take a look at render_template.rb. render_template supports either a
file name, in which case it prepends the controller-based path (i.e.
if the controller is ''foo'' and you say
''bar'', it will match
''foo/bar''), or a path. In either case it matches against
response.rendered_file - it does not do any real path resolution -
it''s just matching strings.

HTH,
David


>
> Thanks
> Ashley
>
>
>
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