On 2008-12-04, at 17:06, Zach Dennis wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi guys. I just wrote a small spec helper method to DRY up some of
my specs,
and found that passing a URL helper (Eg: #photos_url) to a method
results in
a NameError error. I extracted the problem into its own short spec
file to
isolate it. Any thoughts on what's going on?:
http://gist.github.com/32060
foo(properties_url) is being executed in the context of the describe
block and not in the instance of an example being run. For example:
describe FooController do
it "has access to routing methods here" do
properties_url
end
# it doesn't have access out here though, this fails
properties_url
# your example will fail to
foo(properties_url)
end
--
Zach Dennis
Hi Zach. Thanks for that explanation; it makes a lot of sense. What
I'm trying to do is write a spec helper method for DRYing up
controller redirect examples. In other words, rather than having the
following 4 lines repeated throughout my specs:
it 'should redirect to the account page' do
do_action
response.should redirect_to account_url
end
I'd like to do this:
it_should_redirect_to 'the account page', account_url
I've written the method. The only problem is what you explained;
#account_url being called from outside of an example.
The only solution that I can think of is to do this:
before :each do
@account_url = account_url
end
it_should_redirect_to 'the account page', @account_url
Are there any alternative solutions? Cheers,
Nick
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