>> Keep in mind that rspec-rails is a thin wrapper around the built-in Rails >> testing framework. The convention of relating a symbol in the spec to an >> instance variable in the view was established by Rails with the `assigns` >> method in functional tests (controller specs in rspec): >> >> thing = Factory(:thing) >> get :index >> assigns(:thing).should eq(thing) >> >> In the last line, `assigns(:thing)` refers to the `@thing` instance variable >> in the view. >> >> HTH, >> David > > Hello David > Thanks for that. Doesn't assign have 2 arguments with the first being the > variable to be assigned to and the second being the contents?
Yes, `assign`, in view specs, has two arguments. `assigns` (plural), in controller specs (and provided by Rails) takes only one. `assign` is a setter for a single instance variable, `assigns` is a getter which keys into a map of all assigned instance variables. HTH, David PS - I had to move your post to the bottom and quote my own comments from the previous email to which you were responding. Please read http://idallen.com/topposting.html and make it easier for people to be helpful to you in a way that is understandable to everyone else. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
