Re: [rspec] "Undefined method assigns" in my API controller

[David Chelimsky]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Bruce <bruce...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I'm writing an api controller for my app's api and I'm getting an error
> in my spec: Failure/Error: assigns(:some_response).should_not be_empty
> NoMethodError: undefined method `assigns'.... I am checking to see that
> @some_response got set in a before filter called before the create action of
> the api - I know the filter is getting called and @some_response is getting
> set in the before_filter in the controller. I don't know why the "assigns"
> method is not being found though. My guess is I need to define a path other
> than the rspec defaults, but I'm not sure if this is the issue or how to go
> about doing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Here is a link to the setup/code: http://pastie.org/6260383

Two problems:

1. rspec doesn't know about the apis directory. Try api instead (e.g.
spec/api/v1/some_spec.rb)
2. even if that works, assigns is really a controller spec concept. I
wouldn't recommend it for an api spec, which should (IMO) be more
black-boxy.

HTH,
David

>
> Thank you in advance,
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[Bruce]

Thank you David.  Still couldn't find the assigns, but I read your comment and decided to try it a different way.  So then rspec infers the "spec/api/v1/some_spec.rb" path from "app/controllers/api/v1/some_controller.rb" path?  Is there a way to configure how rspec maps this path? 

[David Chelimsky]

Take a look at https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/blob/master/lib/rspec/rails/example.rb

> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rspec/-/TprXXwZ5FDkJ.