Hi Seth, To get around this, are you able to test the response.headers collection? This tests the code that you wrote, rather than the template logic performed by rails.
response.headers['Content-Type'].should == "text/html" Untested, of course... but it may work :) -- Matt Berther http://www.mattberther.com On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Seth Ladd wrote: >> There is a guideline in TDD that you should test your code and not >> other people's code. The behaviour you're interested in testing is >> that of ActionController::Base, not of your code. > > I, of course, do not want to test Rails. I do, however, want to > ensure that I have a block to handle the correct MIME type and I have > a template for that MIME type. I suppose checking for the template > "foo/show" is good enough in this case. If there was an error, I'd > get a nil there. > > I guess where this strategy falls down is if I forgot to put a > responds_to in my controller. Then, no matter the format, I'll still > render 'foo/show' (assuming I do indeed have that template) > > Thanks for your help, > Seth > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
