rspec users - Feb 2011 - Controller Testing + Devise = boom (undefined @controller, request)

Here I am, trying to learn TDD and BDD.  Getting start, most simple
case, and the world is falling apart:

My test code:

  it "should respond with success" do
      puts ''hi''
#      get :new
#      response.should be_success
    end


My stack trace:
$ rspec spec
"controller: nil"
F

Failures:

  1) VideosController new exposes request and response before and after
the action
     Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `request'' for nil:NilClass
     #
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:48:in
`method_missing''
     #
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:20:in
`initialize''
     #
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:60:in
`new''
     #
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:60:in
`warden''
     # /Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-[/code]

You''ll notice it says controller: nil.  I modified the devise helper,
as
such:

class TestWarden < Warden::Proxy #:nodoc:
      attr_reader :controller

      def initialize(controller)
        @controller = controller
        manager = Warden::Manager.new(nil) do |config|
          config.merge! Devise.warden_config
        end
        p "controller: #{controller.inspect}"
        super(controller.request.env, manager)
      end

Thanks for any help!
--Peter

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I am assuming that the get and response lines are not commented
out in your actual test!

Does your code consist ONLY of the lines below?
I think you need to proceed the "it" line with a "describe"
line.
for example:

   describe "my test" do
     it "...." do
       *put other code here*
     end
   end


On 02/06/2011 12:18 AM, Peter Ehrlich wrote:
> Here I am, trying to learn TDD and BDD.  Getting start, most simple
> case, and the world is falling apart:
>
> My test code:
>
>    it "should respond with success" do
>        puts ''hi''
> #      get :new
> #      response.should be_success
>      end
>
>
> My stack trace:
> $ rspec spec
> "controller: nil"
> F
>
> Failures:
>
>    1) VideosController new exposes request and response before and after
> the action
>       Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
>       NoMethodError:
>         undefined method `request'' for nil:NilClass
>       #
>
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/activesupport-3.0.3/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:48:in
> `method_missing''
>       #
>
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:20:in
> `initialize''
>       #
>
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:60:in
> `new''
>       #
>
/Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/devise-1.1.5/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:60:in
> `warden''
>       # /Users/peter/.rvm/gems/ruby-[/code]
>
> You''ll notice it says controller: nil.  I modified the devise
helper, as
> such:
>
> class TestWarden<  Warden::Proxy #:nodoc:
>        attr_reader :controller
>
>        def initialize(controller)
>          @controller = controller
>          manager = Warden::Manager.new(nil) do |config|
>            config.merge! Devise.warden_config
>          end
>          p "controller: #{controller.inspect}"
>          super(controller.request.env, manager)
>        end
>
> Thanks for any help!
> --Peter
>

My apologies!  Yes, the describe is there.  Here''s the whole file, with
some other commented code (tests, before block) removed:

require ''spec_helper''

describe ''VideosController'' do

  describe ''new'' do

    it "should respond with success" do
      puts ''hi''
#      get :new
#      response.should be_success
    end

  end

end


Really without understanding of what is going on under the hood.. :-/

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