On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Lee<lee.longm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Firstly, my experiments suggest that the layout is only rendered if > the :layout attribute is included in the call to render. Is my > understanding correct?
Yes, and it's the way things should be. I suggest writing a separate spec for the layout, and testing its behavior separate from the view. After all, you're *unit* testing here. And the layout is a separate unit. > Secondly, the link_to code only executes if the session contains a > piece of data (member id). How do I set up the session data in my view > spec? With the session[] object, e.g. "session[:foo] = bar". See: http://rspec.info/rails/writing/views.html Whether the view (or layout) should be looking directly into the session and making decisions from what it sees, instead of trusting what it gets from the controller, is another question. "Is there a current user?" is _probably_ closer to your actual business rules than "Does the session contain a member id?" -- Have Fun, Steve Eley (sfe...@gmail.com) ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine http://www.escapepod.org _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
