Starr Horne <[email protected]> writes:
>> What does people do here? ignore the fact that the integration test
>> generate HTTP request which differs from what a broswer will do, or do
>> you use post (or post_via_redirect) and adding the "_method" parameter
>> manually.
>
> I think you're just splitting hairs at that point. If the put request in your
> integration test doesn't get routed to the correct action, the test will fail
> anyway.
Hi Starr.
Thanks for taking your time to answer my post.
I think you misunderstand. My put request in my integration test do
get routed to the correct action. My point is a standard browser will
not generate HTTP PUT request upon edits, so my integration test does
not reflect standard usage of my web-app.
rake routes show:
edit_order GET /orders/:id/edit(.:format) {:controller=>"orders",
:action=>"edit"}
PUT /orders/:id(.:format) {:controller=>"orders",
:action=>"update"}
However the default (which I use) view (app/views/order/edit.html.erb
contains
<% form_for(@order) do |f| %>
And one should expect this to generate HTML that upon commit makes a
HTTP PUT request to the update action.
However the above form_for(@order) call generates the following HTML
form:
<form action="/orders/785800374" class="edit_order" id="edit_order_785800374"
method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0"><input name="_method"
type="hidden" value="put" /></div>
So even though I tell rails that I want the update action to use the
HTTP PUT request, the generated HTML in the edit.html.erb is form
generating a HTTP POST request with an additional hidden input named
"_method" with the value "put"
That means, that when people are using the app from a standard
browser the browser will send a HTTP POST request.
First of all I wonder why rails (the form_for method) does not
generate a form that will send a HTTP PUT request. I think (but this
is only a wild guess) this is because it is work-in-progress
Secondly, now the situation is like that, what does people do (in
their integration test) to accommodate for the situation.
Basically I don't have a problem with my application. I just see that
my integration tests does not generate the HTTP requests that a real
browser would have done.
Jarl
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