rspec users - Mar 2010 - Access to controller and request objects in controller specs (rails 3)

Hi

Rails 3 provides @controller and @request as instance variables in
controller tests, whats the equivalent in rspec controller tests?

I''m using warden for authentication and need to be able to stub
@request.env[''warden''] with something so that controllers can
be
tested. Currently @request is nil (error: undefined method `env'' for
nil:NilClass).

If I remember correctly the default controller specs in rails 2/rspec
1 contained this assertion:

controller.should be_an_instance_of(MyController)

This fails with rails 3/rspec 2 beta 3 because controller is nil.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Steve

On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:44 AM, stevehodgkiss wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Rails 3 provides @controller and @request as instance variables in
> controller tests, whats the equivalent in rspec controller tests?
> 
> I''m using warden for authentication and need to be able to stub
> @request.env[''warden''] with something so that controllers
can be
> tested. Currently @request is nil (error: undefined method `env''
for
> nil:NilClass).
> 
> If I remember correctly the default controller specs in rails 2/rspec
> 1 contained this assertion:
> 
> controller.should be_an_instance_of(MyController)
> 
> This fails with rails 3/rspec 2 beta 3 because controller is nil.
> 
> Any ideas?
Right now, rspec-2 controller specs include rails integration test behaviour,
not rails controller test behaviour. Before rails-3 and rspec-rails-2 go final,
we''ll figure out a way to provide access to a controller object, but
things are a bit fluid right now on both fronts, so it might not be available
for a bit.

There is a ticket about this on lighthouse:

https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/963

Please feel free to follow that ticket and/or weigh in on it.

Cheers,
David