<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Going back to my original message, I have the following at the beginning of the download method:<br><br> def download<br> @orders = Order.find( params[:ids] )<br> ...<br><br>The problem is that params[:ids], although built as an Array object by the view that calls the download method on the controller, is passed as a /-delimited string of id values. Order.find() will not do the desired thing with that string, which was intended to be an array by the view, but Rails passed it in a string representation. So the method really should be<br><br> def download<br>
@orders = Order.find( params[:ids].split( '/' ) )<br>
<br>and what I'm trying to spec is the addition of the call to split().<br><br><br>Al<div><div style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Jarkko Laine <jarkko@jlaine.net><br>To: rspec-users <rspec-users@rubyforge.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 7:31:11 AM<br>Subject: Re: [rspec-users] params not available for controller specs?<br><br>
On 4.12.2007, at 17.13, Al Chou wrote:<br><br>> Ah, thanks! That was a breakthrough. My mock object "ids_string" <br>> isn't receiving the method calls I expect (even though the code <br>> under test actually does what I want it to do and works correctly), <br>> but at least I'm past the params issue.<br><br>You don't get the same object through the action queue, which is <br>another reason for not mocking something there. "string 1" is not <br>necessarily the same object as "string 1" and Rails will do a lot of <br>processing to the parameters before they end up in the params hash.<br><br>Just assume that a similar string will get passed through and spec <br>that the behaviour is what you expect.<br><br>What kind of method calls are you expecting/stubbing for a string?<br><br>//jarkko<br><br>--<br>Jarkko Laine<br><a href="http://jlaine.net"
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