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Sergio Tapia
Sergio Tapia

Reputation: 9825

How to use RSpec to test if one URL redirects to another URL?

I want to write a test that verifies that a URL is redirecting to a different one.

For example:

http://localhost:3000/news/foobar+baz/bar+boo

to

http://localhost:3000/news?tools=foobar+baz&sources=bar+boo

Using RSpec I can't seem to find a way to do this. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1797

Answers (2)

Kamen Kanev
Kamen Kanev

Reputation: 311

You should make a request test. RSpec have:

expect(response).to redirect_to(...)

but it doesn't make assertions for the params

You use this one:

def expect_to_redirect_to_with_params(expected_url, expected_params)
  redirect_url = response.location
  uri = URI.parse(redirect_uri)
  redirect_params = Rack::Utils.parse_query(uri.query)

  expect(redirect_url).to eq(expected_uri)
  expect(redirect_params).to eq(expected_params)
end

If you want you can make it to a custom matcher instead of method.

Upvotes: 0

York Yang
York Yang

Reputation: 537

In your case, you actually are trying to redirect from /foobar+baz/bar+boo to / with parameters appended. Potentially similar with this post: RSpec testing redirect to URL with GET params

Typically you shouldn't test the parameter with the redirect url syntax cus this is not the url location but the parameter. You can extract the location manually and parse the parameter to see if they are what you want. The first answer in that post gives an example.

Upvotes: 1

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