[rspec-users] Access controller object in controller macro

[Justin Ko]

On Apr 17, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Nasir Jamal wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> We have just upgraded our Rails 2.3.11 app to Rails 3.0.0 and Rspec 1.3.2 to 2.6. We are having two problems with rspec currently and any help would be great.
> 
> 1) We have some controller macros where we have been using the controller object, session hash, response, etc. in different methods for e.g.
> 
> module ControllerMacros
>   def imaginary_method_with_example_calls
>      # in actual code different methods call one of the below, this is just an example of things not working
>     controller.stubs(:method)
>     controller.class.skip_before_filter(:name)
>     session[:user_id] = user.id
>     response.something
>   end
> end
> 
> But now after upgrading to Rspec 2.6 they do not work and calling controller just returns nil and hence undefined method 'skip_before_filter' for NilClass error. I did google but found nothing regarding this.
> 
> 2) Changing 'request.request_uri' to 'request.full_path' raises the following error when running rspec
> NoMethodError:
>        undefined method `full_path' for #<ActionController::TestRequest:0x1bfa46f8>
> 
> Any help / suggestion would be really helpful.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Nas 
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I assume your app directory looks like this?

app_root/spec/controllers/my_controller_spec.rb

And you are running the specs from the *app_root*?

How are you including this module?


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