I don't think that ticket applies to my problem--as I read it, https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/843 is about enhancing RSpec with additional routing tests/specs.
My issue is that in the context of a helper spec, when calling route helpers (_url/_path methods) from a helper, a different Rails code path is executed, giving different results in some cases. This means that sometimes your helper specs pass when the helper "in the wild" doesn't do what's spec'd--you cannot trust your specs! Thoughts? Ed On Jul 4, 3:53 pm, David Chelimsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ed Ruder<[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a helper that calls a Rails route _url method. In the context > > of a helper spec file, the route helper method ends up calling url_for > > in rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb. In the context of > > rendering a page, the route helper method calls url_for in rails/ > > actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb. Though very similar, > > they can return different results, as I found out. > > > Specifically, ActionController::Base#url_for doesn't do html escaping-- > > ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper#url_for does, and has an additional > > parameter, :escape => true|false, to controller whether or not the > > escaping is done. > > > This took some frustrating time to track down. > > > Since the code path executed by helper examples is not the same as > > production, tests can produce invalid results. Also, some behavior > > cannot be tested, since the code generating the results is not being > > executed. > > > Is this a bug in RSpec, or is there a "correct" way to test helpers > > that I'm missing? > > Not sure if this is directly related, but you may be interested in > this ticket:https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/843 > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected]http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
