assign_to failing in Rails 3 / RSpec 2 / Shoulda 2.11.3 (Expected action to assign a value for @var)

[Dan Ryan]

I'm having trouble testing a Rails 3 app with RSpec (2.0.0.beta.22)
and Shoulda (2.11.3) matchers:

http://pastie.org/1170752

The closest thing I could find to this was
http://rspeicher.tumblr.com/post/1111927237/an-rspec2-shoulda-controller-gotcha,
but as you can see from the above pastie, I have followed the advice.

assigns(:var) works, but the assign_to(:var) matcher does not. What's
the fix? What other info do you need from me?

Thanks!
Dan

[mhenrixon]

Also have the same problem I followed the blog post but assign_to doesn't work. Anything I can do to help?

[mhenrixon]

this works for me : 

    it "should assign to orders" do
      assigns[:orders].should == @orders
    end          

Really frustrating! :) 

 

[Mikael Henriksson]

The blog post that the first post in the thread refers to : http://rspeicher.tumblr.com/post/1111927237/an-rspec2-shoulda-controller-gotcha

subject { controller }

it { should assign_to :order } #is not working for me

# the following works

it "should assign to orders" do

   assigns[:orders].should == @orders

end 

Mikael Henriksson

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On Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Dan Croak wrote:

Which blog post? What was the code that wasn't working for you?

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:19 PM, mhenrixon <mik...@zoolutions.se> wrote:

Also have the same problem I followed the blog post but assign_to doesn't
work. Anything I can do to help?

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Ok, full code comming up 

  context "as admin" do

    before do

      user = Factory(:admin)

      @orders = []

      10.times do

        @orders << Factory(:order)

      end

      sign_in user

      User.current = user

      controller.stubs(:current_user).returns(user)

      Order.stubs(:all_for_index).returns(@orders)

      get :index

    end

    subject { controller }

    

    it { should assign_to(:orders) } #this does not work

    # this works fine

    it "should assign to orders" do

      assigns[:orders].should == @orders

    end

    it { should respond_with(:success) }

    it { should respond_with_content_type(:html) }

    it { should render_template(:index) }

    it { should_not set_the_flash }

  end