Chris Sund wrote:
Hey Everyone,
I am finally to the point in the rspec book where it describes how to
implement controller specs, so I thought what the heck, I'll give it a
try. I have an app I have been working on (Inside out) that I needed
to get test specs written for before I continue on with the app. Now
that I have read enough of the book I realize I was doing things a
little backwards in the "rspec" sense of BDD, but I thought I would
try to apply what I have learned so far to my existing code.
Here's the feedback I'm getting when I run my spec file....
NoMethodError in 'AccountsController POST create should build a new
account'
You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base.
The error occurred while evaluating nil.save
/Users/Chris/Rails/obilling/app/controllers/accounts_controller.rb:
24:in `create'
./spec/controllers/accounts_controller_spec.rb:7:
script/spec:10:
Here's my spec file...
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper' )
describe AccountsController, "POST create" do
it "should build a new account" do
Account.should_receive(:new).with("address" => "1201 washington
street")
This is your problem.. you need to return something for 'save' to be
called on. i.e.
Account.should_receive(:new).with("address" => "1201 washington
street").and_return(mock_model(Accrount))
Notice the "and_return" at the end? That way a mock_model of Account will be
returned from the new call so that the controller can set it to @account and save it.
To see some examples of RSpec controller specs you can use a generator to
general rspec scaffolding... like so:
./script/generate rspec_scaffold Account
HTH,
Ben
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