Hi,-
I'm wondering how to test POSTing something to an action from a form. I
am testing an action named "forgot" in my account_controller.rb. It
takes an email address as a parameter and does things based on whether a
user with that email address exists:
def forgot
if request.post?
user = User.find_by_email(params[:user][:email])
if user
user.create_reset_code
flash[:notice] ="Reset code sent to #{user.email}"
else
flash[:notice] ="#{params[:user][:email]} does not exit in the
system."
end
redirect_to index_url
end
end
The HTML looks like this:
<form action="/account/forgot" method="post"><div
style="margin:0;padding:0"><input name="authenticity_token"
type="hidden" value="b17df8ef7db06d17204142dfc501ff77256caa81" /></div>
<p>Enter email address: <br /> <input id="user_email" name="user[email]"
size="30" type="text" /></p>
<input name="commit" type="submit" value="Email new password" />
</form>
So I'm trying to test this like:
def test_forgot_password
get 'account/forgot'
assert_response :success
assert_template 'account/forgot' #all fine so far
post 'account/forgot', '[email protected]' #not good
assert_redirected_to index_url #fails
end
I get:
Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <500>
<"You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!\nYou might have
expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base.\nThe error occurred while
evaluating nil.[]">
I'm not sure if the request parameter is wrongly formed? The app must
redirect to the index url regardless of the validity of the email
address. So the error must lie elsewhere I guess!
Thanks and oh, a Happy New (Rails) Year :-)
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