Hi Andrew, I'm not sure that's necessarily true - I've read of several RESTful APIs using OPTIONS to discover more about a resource at a URI. Rails clearly recognizes the OPTIONS HTTP verb because I get
Started OPTIONS "/" for 127.0.0.1 at Tue May 24 23:38:38 +0530 2011 when I query a standard Rails index action from an interactive console: Ruby 1.9.2, 2011-02-18, x86_64-darwin10.6.0 Loading Wrest 1.4.4 ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 > response = 'http://localhost:3000'.to_uri.options <- (OPTIONS -2038453369797053398 -4029552566690348382) http://localhost:3000/ -> (OPTIONS -2038453369797053398 -4029552566690348382) 200 OK (0 bytes 0.09s) => #<Wrest::Native::Response:0x00000100d89ea0 @http_response=#<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>> ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 > response.body => nil Interestingly, that same uri does actually have a body when invoked with a get. Best, Sidu. http://c42.in http://about.me/ponnappa On 24 May 2011 23:07, Andrew Premdas <aprem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 May 2011 04:26, satyamag <satya...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I am new to rails and rspec. I am trying to write specs for a web service >> written in rails and found that firefox 3.6 makes an OPTIONS call to the >> server before making a POST. >> >> I want to write a spec for this behavior but am unable to find any >> resource >> on how to write a spec for an OPTIONS call. Could someone please help? I >> would really appreciate it. >> >> I am working on rails 3 with ruby 1.9.2 and rspec 2.5.2 >> >> thank you > > Do you really need to do this? From my cursory look of the w3 spec > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html, the options command > is all about establishing comms with your server - not your service. So > there is nothing to specify in your service is there! Your not writing > specs for apache, nginx or whatever you have serving your application. > HTH, and if I'm wrong please let me know > All best > Andrew > >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/Writing-a-spec-for-HTTP-OPTIONS-verb-tp31687138p31687138.html >> Sent from the rspec-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Andrew Premdas > blog.andrew.premdas.org > > _______________________________________________ > 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
