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Tuesday, 27 July 2010

How to test a redirect with Shoulda

I was trying to test if the controller was redirecting but I was getting a 200 (success) instead of 302. With a standard Unit::Test it was working ok. Then, by printing the response body I so that with Shoulda I was getting a 200 with the text:

<html><body>You are being <a href="http://test.host/configurations/46/edit">redirected</a>.</body></html>
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So I decided to test if the response was a link (a tag) with redirected as text of the link:

assert_select "a", "redirected"


This is the code showing the same test, one with Unit::Test, the other with Shoulda:

context "should destroy participation" do
setup do
@configuration = Factory.create :configuration, :status => 'LIVE'
@p = Factory.create :participation, :configuration => @configuration
@admin = Factory.create :participant, :admin => true
login_as @admin
end
should "delete :destroy participations" do
assert_difference('Participation.count', -1) do
delete :destroy, :id => @p.to_param
end
assert_select "a", "redirected"
end
end
test "should destroy" do
@configuration = Factory.create :configuration, :status => 'LIVE'
@p = Factory.create :participation, :configuration => @configuration
@admin = Factory.create :participant, :admin => true
login_as @admin
assert_difference('Participation.count', -1) do
delete :destroy, :id => @p.to_param
end
assert_redirected_to(:controller => "configurations",
:action => "edit",
:id => @configuration.id)
assert_equal 'The host has been unassociated.', flash[:notice]
end
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posted by Riccardo Tacconi @ 09:13 0 Comments