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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 19260

How do I refer to a create method in a minitest to test the controller?

I'm using Rails 5 and minitest. How do I refer to a create URL in my test meant to test out the controller's create method? In my routes file, I have

resources :items

And in my test file, I have

  test "do create" do
    person = people(:one)
    rating = 10
    post items_create_url, params: {person_id: person.id, rating: rating}

    # Verify we got the proper response
    assert_response :success
  end

However, the above test is dying with a 

undefined local variable or method `items_create_url'

error. What's the right way to refer to my create method in the test?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 402

Answers (1)

Taryn East
Taryn East

Reputation: 27747

In RESTful routes, models are considered to be a collection of things. As you are creating a new item, you are posting a new item (the data) to the collection of existing items, so Rails uses:

post items_url, params: {person_id: person.id, rating: rating}

For more info on routing, the Rails guides really are the best source of info: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html

Upvotes: 1

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