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Souloikj
Souloikj

Reputation: 360

Rspec testing, calling controller method received NoMethodError

So I was just trying to call a log_in method from user controller in the RSpec as

it "should get the index page" do
  @user = User.new({ :email => "[email protected]" })
  log_in(@user)
  get 'index'
  response.should be_success
end

The result I got is like

1) EmployeesController GET 'index' should get the index page
   Failure/Error: log_in(user)
   NoMethodError:
     undefined method `log_in' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x4ac0328>
   # ./spec/controllers/employees_controller_spec.rb:11:in `user_log_in'
   # ./spec/controllers/employees_controller_spec.rb:16:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Can someone help me out? Thanks

Edited March 11th, 2011

Here is the log_in method which is in UserController

  def log_in(user)
    session[:current_user] = user.id
  end

Upvotes: 2

Views: 11923

Answers (2)

BurmajaM
BurmajaM

Reputation: 724

Why don't you stub logged_in? or whatever your method is. Logging in is not target of this spec, so stub it! Here's simple example how I spec controller action that has before_filter:

class MyController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :logged_in?

  def index
  end
end



describe MyController do
  describe "GET 'index'" do
    context "when not logged in"
      # you want to be sure that before_filter is executed
      it "requires authentication" do
        controller.expects :logged_in?
        get 'index'
      end
      # you don't want to spec that it will redirect you to login_path
      # because that spec belongs to #logged_in? method specs
    end
    context "when authenticated" do
      before(:each) { controller.stubs :logged_in? }
      it "renders :index template" do
        get 'index'
        should render_template(:index)
      end
      it "spec other things your action does when user is logged in"
    end
  end
end

Upvotes: 5

Shiv
Shiv

Reputation: 8412

If you want to call a method on the controller in an RSpec controller test, you could use the following.

subject.send(:log_in,@user)

It should call the method. I dont know if this is really a best practice. A better method would be to stub the logged_in method as BurmajaM suggested.

Upvotes: 14

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