[rspec-users] Problem specing application layout, missing partial?

[Pixel]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jul 5, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Pixel wrote:
>
> In an effort to teach myself BDD I'm trying it out.  I'm trying to do a
> simple (should be straightforward) spec on my application.html.haml file
> first looking for a div tag with the class 'nav'  it seems that rspec isn't
> able to render the app/views/layouts/application.html.haml file.
> Gist with command/error/backtrace:
> http://gist.github.com/463978#file_gistfile1.txt
>
>
> Short version:
>
> Don't pass anything to render() in the spec. It'll do the right thing as
> long as you name the template in the string passed to describe:
>
> require "spec_helper"
>
> describe "layouts/application.html.haml" do
>   it "displays a navigation area" do
>     render
>     rendered.should have_selector('div#nav')
>   end
> end
>

Of course it helps when I write out the file name correctly in the describe
line, so that rspec can build the correct call.  Woops!  Thanks for your
help and patience David, much appreciated.

- Cole
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