Testing RSpec views: the index action; is my methodology flawed?

[David Zhang]

This is my organizations_controller_spec.rb:

require 'spec_helper'

describe Superadmin::OrganizationsController do

  describe "GET index" do

    it "shows a list of all organizations" do

      #pending "don't know why this doesn't work"

      Organization.should_receive(:all)

    end

  end

  

end

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This is my controllers/superadmin/organizations_controller.rb:

class Superadmin::OrganizationsController < ApplicationController

  def index

    @organizations = Organization.all

  end

end

Oddly, this doesn't pass:

1) Superadmin::OrganizationsController GET index shows a list of all organizations

     Failure/Error: Organization.should_receive(:all)

       (<Organization(id: integer, name: string, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime) (class)>).all(any args)

           expected: 1 time

           received: 0 times

Is my methodology incorrect?

[David Chelimsky]

On Jun 30, 2:01 pm, David Zhang <dzhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is my organizations_controller_spec.rb:
>
> require 'spec_helper'
>
> describe Superadmin::OrganizationsController do
>   describe "GET index" do
>     it "shows a list of all organizations" do
>       #pending "don't know why this doesn't work"
>       Organization.should_receive(:all)

You've got to actually invoke the action here:

get :index

HTH,
David

[David Zhang]

Oh, of course... thank you. How silly of me.

Question:  Do you recommend stubbing/mocking models?  Or could I just specify the real model as I did here?