[rspec-users] View Specs Fail with "protected method render"

[Jeff Dean]

I run the view specs with rake spec:views.  I mentioned zentest only because
I wasn't sure if it affected the specs in any way.

If render is protected, how should I be writing my view specs?

On 4/19/07, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/10/07, Jeff Dean <jeff at jefdean.com> wrote:
> > I've got rspec and zentest installed as well as the rspec rails plugin,
> and
> > my model/controller specs all pass and work well.  I can't seem to get
> views
> > to work though - 100% of the specs fail with:
> >
> > NoMethodError in '/users/show.rhtml should render attributes in <p>'
> > protected method `render' called for
> > #<Spec::Rails::Runner::ViewSpecController:0x3197dfc>
> >
> /Users/jeff/Sites/niche/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec_on_rails/lib/spec/rails/runner/context/view.rb:102:in
> > `render'
> > ./spec/views/users/show_rhtml_spec.rb:13:
> >
> > Note the "protected method `render' called for
> > #<Spec::Rails::Runner::ViewSpecController:0x3197dfc>"
> >
> > Here's an example spec:
> >
> > require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../spec_helper'
> >
> > context "/users/new.rhtml" do
> >   include UsersHelper
> >
> >   setup do
> >     @errors = mock("errors")
> >     @errors.stub!(:count).and_return(0)
> >
> >     @user = mock_user
> >     @user.stub!(:errors).and_return @errors
> >     assigns[:user] = @user
> >   end
> >
> >   specify "should render new form" do
> >     render "/users/new.rhtml"
> >     response.should_have_tag 'form', :attributes =>{:action =>
> users_path,
> > :method => 'post'}
> >
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > Can anyone think of why "render" is protected?  Is this a versioning
> issue?
>
> It's protected in ActionController::Base in rails >= 1.2.3 (perhaps
> before), so Spec::Rails made it protected as well.
>
> You mentioned that you've got zentest installed - what does that have
> to do with this problem? RSpec's dependency on ZenTest has been gone
> for quite some time now. Are you running specs w/ autotest or
> rspec_autotest?
>
>
> >
> > Thanks - Jeff
> >
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