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Sergey
Sergey

Reputation: 4752

How to set request headers in rspec request spec?

In the controller spec, I can set http accept header like this:

request.accept = "application/json"

but in the request spec, "request" object is nil. So how can I do it here?

The reason I want to set http accept header to json is so I can do this:

get '/my/path'

instead of this

get '/my/path.json'

Upvotes: 142

Views: 103901

Answers (10)

awaage
awaage

Reputation: 2769

You should be able to specify HTTP headers as the third argument to your get() method as described here:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/RequestHelpers.html#method-i-get

and here

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/Session.html#method-i-process

So, you can try something like this for rspec 2:

get '/my/path', nil, {'HTTP_ACCEPT' => "application/json"}

Or like this for rspec 3:

get '/my/path', params: {}, headers: { 'HTTP_ACCEPT' => "application/json" }

Upvotes: 143

morgoth
morgoth

Reputation: 1451

This is working for controller specs, not request specs:

request.headers["My Header"] = "something"

Upvotes: 25

Jim Stewart
Jim Stewart

Reputation: 17323

To send both xhr: true and headers, I had to do e.g.:

my_headers = { "HTTP_ACCEPT": "application/json" }
get my_path, xhr: true, headers: my_headers

Upvotes: 9

Cyril Duchon-Doris
Cyril Duchon-Doris

Reputation: 13929

With RSpec 3 you can use the following syntax

get my_resource_path, params: {}, headers: { 'HTTP_ACCEPT' => "application/json" }

As described in the official Rspec documentation (the link points to v3.7)

Upvotes: 12

Jules Copeland
Jules Copeland

Reputation: 1722

I'm adding this here, as I got majorly stuck trying to do this in Rails 5.1.rc1

The get method signature is slightly different now.

You need to specify the options after the path as keyword arguments, i.e.

get /some/path, headers: {'ACCEPT' => 'application/json'}

FYI, the full set of keywords arguments are:

params: {}, headers: {}, env: {}, xhr: false, as: :symbol

Upvotes: 31

gayavat
gayavat

Reputation: 19398

Try something like: 

get :index, :format => 'json'

Upvotes: 2

marcusb
marcusb

Reputation: 630

Using rspec with Rack::Test::Methods

header 'X_YOUR_HEADER_VAR', 'val'
get '/path'

The header var will come through as X-Your-Header-Var

Upvotes: 11

user4694178
user4694178

Reputation: 119

I have to set up headers separately 

request.headers["Accept"] = "application/json"

Trying sending it via get/delete/.... is complete garbage in rails4 and causing pain in my head because it is never send as header but as parameter.

{"Accept" => "application/json"}

Upvotes: 9

Igor Escobar
Igor Escobar

Reputation: 1087

Your question was already answered but in case you want to POST something to another action you have to do this:

post :save, {format: :json, application: {param1: "test", param2: "test"}}

Upvotes: 2

Sytse Sijbrandij
Sytse Sijbrandij

Reputation: 1905

I used this in Test::Unit:

@request.env['HTTP_ACCEPT'] = "*/*, application/youtube-client"
get :index

Upvotes: 40

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