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 > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- Zach Dennis http://www.continuousthinking.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users