Irrespective request type controller tests passes

[siva]

  Hi all

  I might found issue or it couldn't be. In my routes file I have RESTful routes for movies as follows:

  ```
    resource :movies

 ```

 When I write test for movies controller#index action

   ```
      it "assigns to @movies" do
         post :index
         expect(assigns[:movies]).to eq([@movie])
     end
   ```

  I defined a route for movies#index with request type as `get` but when I use `post :index` in my test controller it passes the test. Ideally it should raise routing error but it didn't.   What's happening behind the covers? Is rails doing magic or rspec doing magic? Could you clarify me?
 


 

[Myron Marston]

 For the most part, rspec's rails' support is a very thin wrapper around rails' built-in testing support and I believe that's the case there.  If you are writing a controller spec bear in mind that it bypasses the router.  You could see if it has the same behavior if you write a rails functional test -- I suspect it does.

HTH,

Myron