rspec users - May 2009 - Unable to post to an update action in a controller spec

Hi,

I use restful routes. In one of my views I have a form that looks like:

<%- form_tag ''/items/update'', :method => :put do -%>
  ...
  <%= submit_tag "Recalculate" %>
<%- end -%>

I know I cheated a bit, as I should be submitting to /items/1 instead.
Anyway, now how can I trigger the update action in my controller test?

I tried stuff like:
post :update, {:method => ''put'', :item =>
{''1'' => {:quantity => 5}}}

But the route recognition isn''t pleased, I guess it''s missing
an :id. Is
it possible to test the way I coded it?


PS: please no comment about writing code before testing, I know it''s a
bad habit, and I am doing my best to change it.
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On May 13, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use restful routes. In one of my views I have a form that looks  
> like:
>
> <%- form_tag ''/items/update'', :method => :put do
-%>
>  ...
>  <%= submit_tag "Recalculate" %>
> <%- end -%>
>
> I know I cheated a bit, as I should be submitting to /items/1 instead.
> Anyway, now how can I trigger the update action in my controller test?
>
> I tried stuff like:
> post :update, {:method => ''put'', :item =>
{''1'' => {:quantity => 5}}}
put :update, :item => 1 etc.

There are 4 methods for the 4 HTTP types. get, post, put, delete.


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>
> But the route recognition isn''t pleased, I guess it''s
missing
> an :id. Is
> it possible to test the way I coded it?
>
>
> PS: please no comment about writing code before testing, I know
it''s a
> bad habit, and I am doing my best to change it.
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> put :update, :item => 1 etc.
> 
I tried that but didn''t work. I managed to get it working by simply 
doing:

post :update, {:id => ''dummy'', :item =>
{''1'' => ...}}

For some reason, I previously tried with :id => ''update''
but Rails
didn''t like it.

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On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Fernando Perez <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
>> put :update, :item => 1 etc.
>>
> I tried that but didn''t work. I managed to get it working by
simply
> doing:
>
> post :update, {:id => ''dummy'', :item =>
{''1'' => ...}}
>
> For some reason, I previously tried with :id =>
''update'' but Rails
> didn''t like it.
I don''t get the impression you''re very familiar with RESTful
routing
in Rails. You may want to look read about it in the Agile Web
Development w/Rails book and/or Rails guides:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#restful-routing-the-rails-default

It should give you a better overview of when/where to use ids, puts, posts, etc.
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