[rspec-users] [Rails] Can't get controller test working with RSpec 2 and edge Rails 3

Patrick Gannon

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Jun 25, 2010, 6:02:36 PM6/25/10

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Not sure if this is a Rails 3 issue or an RSpec 2 issue, but I can't seem to get a standard controller test working - it seems that the 'get' method can't be found.

I have a controller test that looks like this (named "discrepancies_controller_spec.rb" in spec/controllers directory):

require 'spec_helper'

describe DiscrepanciesController do

before :each do

Discrepancy.delete_all

end

it "resolves a discrepancy" do

discrepancy = Discrepancy.create(:my_number=>"12345", :status=>"Open")

get :resolve, :id => discrepancy.id

retrieved_discrepancy = Discrepancy.find_by_my_number("12345")

retrieved_discrepancy.status.should == "Resolved"

end

(Yes, I'm aware of the security implications of modifying data with an HTTP/GET - that's a separate issue...)

When I run it with rake, I get the following error:

1) DiscrepanciesController resolves a discrepancy

Failure/Error: Unable to find C to read failed line

undefined method `get' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0xc9170d0 @__memoized={}>

# ./spec/controllers/discrepancies_controller_spec.rb:38 (ignore the line number, commented out code was removed from the sample)

# C:/Users/Patrick_Gannon/.bundle/ruby/1.8/bundler/gems/rails-16a5e918a06649ffac24fd5873b875daf66212ad-master/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `inject'

# C:/Ruby187/bin/rake:19:in `load'

# C:/Ruby187/bin/rake:19

I can manage to test the controller action by instantiating the controller myself and calling the controller action directly, and it works, but its ugly because I have to mock out things like 'respond_to' and 'params'.

Other pertinent information: I am running Windows 7 32-bit, Ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i386-wingw32], edge Rails 3 and MongoDB/MongoMapper. Here is my list of installed gems (via 'bundle gem' - all my installed gems were installed by Bundler)

* abstract (1.0.0)

* actionmailer (3.0.0.beta4)

* actionpack (3.0.0.beta4)

* activemodel (3.0.0.beta4)

* activerecord (3.0.0.beta4)

* activeresource (3.0.0.beta4)

* activesupport (3.0.0.beta4)

* arel (0.4.0)

* bcrypt-ruby (2.1.2)

* bson (1.0.3)

* bson_ext (1.0.1)

* builder (2.1.2)

* bundler (0.9.26)

* capistrano (2.5.19)

* capybara (0.3.8 a94f99)

* cucumber (0.8.3)

* cucumber-rails (0.3.2 master-b75110)

* culerity (0.2.10)

* database_cleaner (0.5.2 7ea99d)

* devise (1.1.rc1 88ab2f)

* diff-lcs (1.1.2)

* erubis (2.6.5)

* factory_girl (1.3.0)

* factory_girl_rails (1.0)

* faker (0.3.1)

* ffi (0.6.3)

* gherkin (2.0.2)

* highline (1.5.2)

* i18n (0.4.1)

* jnunemaker-validatable (1.8.4)

* joint (0.3.2 11a094)

* json_pure (1.4.3)

* mail (2.2.5)

* mime-types (1.16)

* mongo (1.0.3)

* mongo_mapper (0.8.2)

* net-scp (1.0.2)

* net-sftp (2.0.4)

* net-ssh (2.0.23)

* net-ssh-gateway (1.0.1)

* nokogiri (1.4.2.1)

* plucky (0.3.2)

* polyglot (0.3.1)

* rack (1.1.0)

* rack-mount (0.6.6)

* rack-test (0.5.4)

* rails (3.0.0.beta4 6682cc)

* railties (3.0.0.beta4)

* rake (0.8.7)

* rspec (2.0.0.beta.13)

* rspec-core (2.0.0.beta.13)

* rspec-expectations (2.0.0.beta.13)

* rspec-mocks (2.0.0.beta.13)

* rspec-rails (2.0.0.beta.13)

* selenium-webdriver (0.0.24)

* term-ansicolor (1.0.5)

* thor (0.13.6)

* treetop (1.4.8)

* trollop (1.16.2)

* tzinfo (0.3.22)

* wand (0.2.1)

* warden (0.10.7)

* webrat (0.7.1)

I also added a puts statement in the test to show what methods are available in the test fixture, and "get" is not in the list. Here is what is in the list:

"__memoized", "__should_for_example_group__", "__should_not_for_example_group__", "_fixture_class_names", "_fixture_path", "_fixture_table_names", "_pre_loaded_fixtures", "_setup_mocks", "_teardown_mocks", "_use_instantiated_fixtures", "_use_transactional_fixtures", "_verify_mocks", "a_kind_of", "allow_message_expectations_on_nil", "an_instance_of", "any_args", "anything", "assert", "assert_block", "assert_equal", "assert_in_delta", "assert_instance_of", "assert_kind_of", "assert_match", "assert_nil", "assert_no_match", "assert_not_equal", "assert_not_nil",

"assert_not_same", "assert_nothing_raised", "assert_nothing_thrown", "assert_operator", "assert_raise", "assert_raises", "assert_respond_to", "assert_same", "assert_send", "assert_throws", "be", "be_a", "be_a_kind_of", "be_a_new", "be_an", "be_an_instance_of", "be_close", "be_false", "be_instance_of", "be_kind_of", "be_nil", "be_true", "boolean", "build_message", "change", "described_class", "double", "duck_type", "eq", "eql", "equal", "example", "example=", "exist", "expect", "fixture_class_names", "fixture_class_names?", "fixture_path", "fixture_path?", "fixture_table_names",

"fixture_table_names?", "flunk", "hash_including", "hash_not_including", "have", "have_at_least", "have_at_most", "have_exactly", "include", "instance_of", "kind_of", "match", "method_missing", "method_name", "mock", "mock_discrepancy", "mock_model", "no_args", "pending", "pre_loaded_fixtures", "pre_loaded_fixtures?", "raise_error", "respond_to", "run_in_transaction?", "running_example", "satisfy", "setup_fixtures", "stub_model", "subject", "teardown_fixtures", "throw_symbol", "use_instantiated_fixtures", "use_instantiated_fixtures?", "use_transactional_fixtures", "use_transactional_fixtures?"

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide - sorry for the long email (didn't want to exclude anything...)

Pat

David Chelimsky

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Jun 25, 2010, 10:21:01 PM6/25/10

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On Jun 25, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Patrick Gannon wrote:

Not sure if this is a Rails 3 issue or an RSpec 2 issue, but I can't seem to get a standard controller test working - it seems that the 'get' method can't be found.

I have a controller test that looks like this (named "discrepancies_controller_spec.rb" in spec/controllers directory):

require 'spec_helper'

describe DiscrepanciesController do
  before :each do
   Discrepancy.delete_all
  end

  it "resolves a discrepancy" do

discrepancy = Discrepancy.create(:my_number=>"12345", :status=>"Open")

get :resolve, :id => discrepancy.id

retrieved_discrepancy = Discrepancy.find_by_my_number("12345")
retrieved_discrepancy.status.should == "Resolved"

  end
end

(Yes, I'm aware of the security implications of modifying data with an HTTP/GET - that's a separate issue...)
When I run it with rake, I get the following error:

1) DiscrepanciesController resolves a discrepancy
   Failure/Error: Unable to find C to read failed line
   undefined method `get' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0xc9170d0 @__memoized={}>

   # ./spec/controllers/discrepancies_controller_spec.rb:38 (ignore the line number, commented out code was removed from the sample)
   # C:/Users/Patrick_Gannon/.bundle/ruby/1.8/bundler/gems/rails-16a5e918a06649ffac24fd5873b875daf66212ad-master/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `inject'

   # C:/Ruby187/bin/rake:19:in `load'
   # C:/Ruby187/bin/rake:19

I'm surprised this is the first time this has come up with rspec-2, but here we are :)

This is a path-separator bug that I'll resolve in the next release. For now, you can do this in your controller specs:

describe DiscrepanciesController do

include RSpec::Rails::ControllerExampleGroup

That should work fine.

If you want to do a more global workaround, add this to your spec_helper config:

RSpec.configure do |c|

c.include RSpec::Rails::ControllerExampleGroup, :example_group => { :file_path => /\bspec[\\\/]controllers[\\\/]/ }

end

HTH,

David

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dchel...@gmail.com

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Jun 26, 2010, 1:43:25 AM6/26/10

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On Jun 25, 9:21 pm, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Patrick Gannon wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Not sure if this is a Rails 3 issue or an RSpec 2 issue, but I can't seem to get a standard controller test working - it seems that the 'get' method can't be found.
>
> > I have a controller test that looks like this (named "discrepancies_controller_spec.rb" in spec/controllers directory):
>
> > require 'spec_helper'
>
> > describe DiscrepanciesController do
> > before :each do
> > Discrepancy.delete_all
> > end
>
> > it "resolves a discrepancy" do
> > discrepancy = Discrepancy.create(:my_number=>"12345", :status=>"Open")
>
> > get :resolve, :id => discrepancy.id
>
> > retrieved_discrepancy = Discrepancy.find_by_my_number("12345")
> > retrieved_discrepancy.status.should == "Resolved"
> > end
> > end
>
> > (Yes, I'm aware of the security implications of modifying data with an HTTP/GET - that's a separate issue...)
> > When I run it with rake, I get the following error:
>
> > 1) DiscrepanciesController resolves a discrepancy
> > Failure/Error: Unable to find C to read failed line
> > undefined method `get' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0xc9170d0 @__memoized={}>
> > # ./spec/controllers/discrepancies_controller_spec.rb:38 (ignore the line number, commented out code was removed from the sample)

> > # C:/Users/Patrick_Gannon/.bundle/ruby/1.8/bundler/gems/rails-16a5e918a06649f fac24fd5873b875daf66212ad-master/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependenc ies.rb:212:in `inject'

> > # C:/Ruby187/bin/rake:19:in `load'
> > # C:/Ruby187/bin/rake:19
>
> I'm surprised this is the first time this has come up with rspec-2, but here we are :)
>
> This is a path-separator bug that I'll resolve in the next release. For now, you can do this in your controller specs:
>
> describe DiscrepanciesController do
> include RSpec::Rails::ControllerExampleGroup
>
> That should work fine.
>
> If you want to do a more global workaround, add this to your spec_helper config:
>
> RSpec.configure do |c|
> c.include RSpec::Rails::ControllerExampleGroup, :example_group => { :file_path => /\bspec[\\\/]controllers[\\\/]/ }
> end
>
> HTH,
> David

FYI: http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/99

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Ashish Kumar

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dchel...@gmail.com wrote in post #921577:

> On Jun 25, 9:21 pm, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > require 'spec_helper'

>>
>> > undefined method `get' for
#<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0xc9170d0
> @__memoized={}>

>> include RSpec::Rails::ControllerExampleGroup
>> David
> FYI: http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/99