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joes
joes

Reputation: 359

render failing in rspec test for view

In my view spec i have the following

require 'spec_helper'

describe "my_project/index.html.erb" do
  it "displays the Country drop down" do
    render
    rendered.should contain("Country")
  end
end

But when i run the spec im getting the following error

Failure/Error: render
 ActionView::Template::Error:
   undefined method `map' for nil:NilClass

Im confused as to why am i getting this error when my page does actually contain the text.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1003

Answers (1)

Neil Billingham
Neil Billingham

Reputation: 2285

Do you need an instance variable for it to work with? I.e what ever is set up in the controller index method... So something like this:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "my_project/index.html.erb" do
  before do
    @some_instance_variable = SomeClass.all
    render
  end

  it "displays the Country drop down" do
    rendered.should contain("Country")
  end
end

Upvotes: 2

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