[Rspec-users] RSpec, REST and different formats

[Jeff Dean]

Thanks for the quick reply -

I would be looking for a way to easily specify the most common types in
shorthand, but have the ability to specify full HTTP headers if I want to.
Ideally I would look for a third parameter in the get/post/put/delete
methods that accepts a hash of http headers like
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Integration/Session.html#M000083.
The spec might look like:

context "A get to /index" do

  specify "from a browser should show html" do
    get :index
    # should statements...
  end

  specify "in xml format should render xml" do
    get :index, {}, {:content_type=>'application/xml', :accept =>
'application/xml'}
    # should statements...
  end

end

It seems like the convention in rails right now is to request rss and atom
feeds by using the .rss/.atom extensions and changing the 'accepts' header
in application.rb - so that leaves us with 4 fairly standard request types:
html, javascript, xml and mobile devices (which I know little about).  Since
these will be so common, some syntactic sugar would be nice as well - maybe
something like:

context "A get to /index" do

  specify "from an ajax call should render rjs" do
    get :index, {}, :format => :js # where the magic word 'format'
correctly sets the accept header
    # should statements...
  end

end

References:

   - http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000572.html

I'd love to see these generators and plugins become part of core, too.
After working with RSpec for a few days now, I doubt I'll ever go back to
the unit and functional tests.  Thanks for the hard work -

Jeff


On 10/28/06, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/28/06, Jeff Dean <jeff at jefdean.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone using RSpec with RESTful rails apps?  In my rails controllers
> I
> > check request.respond_to? and render different views accordingly.
> >
> > I noticed that the get method in the rails plugin doesn't accept
> headers:
> >
> > controller_mixin.rb line 92
> > def get(action, parameters = nil)
> >         @request.env['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'GET'
> >         process action, parameters
> > end
> >
> > Has anyone found a way around this?
>
> Hi Jeff. We're getting ready to release a new version of the plugin so
> now is a good time to at least consider addressing this. Can you write
> an example of how you'd want to be able to write the spec (and
> controller code) for a restful get request? Don't worry about how
> rspec would do it. I just want to know what you want it to do.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> >
> > Jeff
> >
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