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Adam Waite
Adam Waite

Reputation: 18865

Ruby on Rails RSpec Routing fail

Rails newb here.

Trying to RSpec test a 200 status code for an index route.

In my index_controller_spec.rb:

require 'spec_helper'

describe IndexController do

    it "should return a 200 status code" do
    get root_path
    response.status.should be(200)
  end

end

routes.rb:

Tat::Application.routes.draw do

    root to: "index#page"

end

index_controller:

class IndexController < ApplicationController

    def page
    end

end

When I visit on my browser all is fine but RSpec command line gives an error:

IndexController should return a 200 status code
     Failure/Error: get '/'
     ActionController::RoutingError:
       No route matches {:controller=>"index", :action=>"/"}
     # ./spec/controllers/index_controller_spec.rb:6:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>

'

I don't understand?!

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 680

Answers (1)

crftr
crftr

Reputation: 8546

Welcome to the Rails world! Testing comes in many different flavors. It appears that you're confusing a controller test with a routing test.

You're seeing this error because root_path is returning /. The get :action within an RSpec controller test is meant to call that method on that controller.

If you notice your error message, it says :action => '/'

To test your controller, change your test to:

require 'spec_helper'

describe IndexController do
  it "should return a 200 status code" do
    get :page
    response.status.should be(200)
  end
end

If you're interested in a routing test, see https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/routing-specs An example would be:

{ :get => "/" }.
  should route_to(
    :controller => "index",
    :action => "page"
  )

Upvotes: 3

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