[rspec-users] spec'ing shared controller methods

[Jonathan Linowes]

I want to isolate and spec methods that are shared by controllers,  
and live in application.rb.

Whereas I usually also provide examples in individual controllers  
that use these methods, not necessarily all the edge cases and I'd  
like to isolate the examples.

This is the approach I'm taking (thanks to bryanl for suggestions and  
http://pastie.caboo.se/123626).  WDYT?

This example is a before_filter that finds the Account specified in  
params[:account_id], which may be used by any number of other  
controllers in my app. As you can see, the filter is still getting  
spec'd and has pending examples.

## application.rb

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   ...
   def find_account
     @account = Account.find_by_id( params[:account_id])
     # TODO: check account status is suspended, closed, different  
flash message?
     return( error_redirect_gracefully( "Account not found")) unless  
@account
   end

   ...
end

## application_controller_spec.rb

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
   map.connect 'foos/:action', :controller => 'foos'
end

class FoosController < ApplicationController
end

describe FoosController, "account authorization" do

   before do
     FoosController.class_eval do
       define_method(:foo) {
         find_account   # this is the method being tested
       }
     end
   end

   it "should find_account from params" do
     acnt = mock_model(Account)
     Account.should_receive(:find_by_id).with('99').and_return(acnt)
     get :foo, :account_id => "99"
     assigns[:account].should == acnt
   end

   it "should redirect gracefully if no account specified" do
     controller.stub!(:error_redirect_gracefully)
     controller.should_receive(:error_redirect_gracefully).with 
( "Account not found")
     acnt = mock_model(Account)
     Account.should_receive(:find_by_id).with(nil).and_return(nil)
     get :foo
   end

   it "should not find accounts that are suspended"
   it "should flash different message for accounts that are suspended"
   it "should not find accounts that are closed"

end




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