[rspec-users] get to a different controller

[Wincent Colaiuta]

El 05/01/2010, a las 21:52, Phillip Koebbe escribió:

> Pat Maddox wrote:
>> The spec has Admin::BaseController as the described type.  So of  
>> course it's going to test against that.  If you want to test a  
>> different class, you need to describe that instead!
>
> Hi Pat,
>
> Right. But, I'm not really wanting to test a different class. My  
> intention is to put the require_admin in the base_controller and  
> have all the admin controllers descend from it, so I don't have to  
> duplicate the before_filter. I was trying to be simple and make a  
> request to a controller that descends from base_controller, thinking  
> that if it got through and didn't redirect to the error page, it  
> worked. How would you suggest I test that

I test inherited stuff with shared behaviors. It might be something  
you could use here.

Basically, I have a bunch of behavior in my ApplicationController, for  
example, and in my spec/controllers/application_controller_spec.rb  
file I have a bunch of blocks like this:

   describe ApplicationController, 'protected methods', :shared =>  
true do
     ...
   end

   describe ApplicationController, 'parameter filtering', :shared =>  
true do
     ...
   end

And I then group them all together in one more shared behavior:

   describe ApplicationController, :shared => true do
     it_should_behave_like 'ApplicationController protected methods'
     it_should_behave_like 'ApplicationController parameter filtering'
     ...
   end

And finally in all subclasses which inherit I can now just do:

   describe ArticlesController do
     it_should_behave_like 'ApplicationController'
     ...
   end

So the behavior inherited from the superclass is specified, but it is  
also tested independently by the inheriting subclasses.

I imagine the same idea might be adaptable in some way for your use  
case.

Cheers,
Wincent