Are you assigning @featured_user (ie: assigns[:featured_user]) before
you render your template? We use :locals w/o any problem, for example:

 template.expect_render(:partial => 'profiles/data', :locals =>
{:profile => @profile}).and_return(%|<p id='profiles_data_partial'
/>|)

Zach

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:19 PM, David Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm currently working on some RSpec view tests and I'm having problems
>  with expect_render.  Most of the expect_render's work fine, but in one
>  of my views I have:
>
>  <%= render :partial => "user_cloud", :locals => {:user =>
>  @featured_user} %>
>
>  I see that expect_render supports ":object" or ":collection" for the
>  second parameter, but this partial uses ":locals".  I tried
>  expect_render without the second parameter and with ":locals" and it
>  failed to match both times.  I confirmed that the partial is rendering
>  in the test.log.  Is there a way to match this render?
>
>  On a similar note, is there a way to test that layout views are
>  rendered?  I can test that the :partials in the layout are rendered,
>  but not the layout file itself.
>
>  In both of these cases I know I could do a "has_tag" and test for
>  something inside the layout file or partial, but I'd rather test
>  contents in a view test for each partial and just verify that the
>  partial is rendered in the view tests that render the partial.
>
>  Thank you,
>
>  David
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