On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Rainer Kuhn <rai...@incutio.com> wrote:
> I'm using capybara with RSpec request specs and can't get it to follow
> redirects from a rack app. Any ideas? The action behind the redirect
> is never called, current_path shows just the call to the Rack app. Any
> ideas?

> ```ruby
> visit "test"
> page.should have_content("Testing 123")
> ```

> ```ruby
> #rack app

> def call(env)
>  response = Rack::Response.new
>  response.redirect("http://.localhost:3000/testpage")
>  response.finish
> end
> ```

> I get:
> ```
> Capybara::ElementNotFound:
>       Unable to find xpath "/html"
> ```

> If I do a simple text only response however it works
> ```
> response = Rack::Response.new("Testing 123")
> response.finish
> ```

> I'd try running the Rack app and using curl -i to see exactly what it returns.

> /Jonas

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Rainer Kuhn <rai...@incutio.com> wrote:
> > I'm using capybara with RSpec request specs and can't get it to follow
> > redirects from a rack app. Any ideas? The action behind the redirect
> > is never called, current_path shows just the call to the Rack app. Any
> > ideas?

> > ```ruby
> > visit "test"
> > page.should have_content("Testing 123")
> > ```

> > ```ruby
> > #rack app

> > def call(env)
> >  response = Rack::Response.new
> >  response.redirect("http://.localhost:3000/testpage")
> >  response.finish
> > end
> > ```

> > I get:
> > ```
> > Capybara::ElementNotFound:
> >       Unable to find xpath "/html"
> > ```

> > If I do a simple text only response however it works
> > ```
> > response = Rack::Response.new("Testing 123")
> > response.finish
> > ```

On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 11:54:50 AM UTC+1, Rainer Kuhn wrote:

> I will, I also suspect that I'm mixing methods from Rack::Test and
> Capybara as described here
> http://elabs.se/blog/34-capybara-and-testing-apis

> I have rack APIs, Resque queues and redirects to rails controllers as
> a consequence of a single post. I foolishly thought I might just test
> them all at once in a big request spec. Apparently that can't be done
> yet. The partial tests on each different bit work fine though.

> I understand the principle that capybara doesn't do posts and for all
> my other specs that works just fine. But what if some forms post from
> external sites, or there's a rack app in between. So far there just
> isn't a test framework that let's me do an integration test on the
> whole process at once.

> On May 1, 9:00 pm, Jonas Nicklas <jonas.nick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd try running the Rack app and using curl -i to see exactly what it
> returns.

> > /Jonas

> > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Rainer Kuhn <rai...@incutio.com> wrote:
> > > I'm using capybara with RSpec request specs and can't get it to follow
> > > redirects from a rack app. Any ideas? The action behind the redirect
> > > is never called, current_path shows just the call to the Rack app. Any
> > > ideas?

> > > ```ruby
> > > visit "test"
> > > page.should have_content("Testing 123")
> > > ```

> > > ```ruby
> > > #rack app

> > > def call(env)
> > >  response = Rack::Response.new
> > >  response.redirect("http://.localhost:3000/testpage")
> > >  response.finish
> > > end
> > > ```

> > > I get:
> > > ```
> > > Capybara::ElementNotFound:
> > >       Unable to find xpath "/html"
> > > ```

> > > If I do a simple text only response however it works
> > > ```
> > > response = Rack::Response.new("Testing 123")
> > > response.finish
> > > ```