Project: RSpec Rails 2.1

Publisher: RSpec

redirect_to matcher

The redirect_to matcher is used to specify that the redirect called
in the latest action ended with the intended behaviour. Essentially,
it delegates to "assert_redirect". For more info, please check out
the Rails documentation on this method.

It is available in controller specs (spec/controllers) and request
specs (spec/requests).

Scenarios

redirect_to with four possible options

Given

a file named "spec/controllers/widgets_controller_spec.rb" with:

require "spec_helper"

describe WidgetsController do

  describe "#create" do
    subject { post :create, :widget => { :name => "Foo" } }

    it "redirects to widget_url(@widget)" do
      subject.should redirect_to(widget_url(assigns(:widget)))
    end

    it "redirects_to :action => :show" do
      subject.should redirect_to :action => :show,
                                 :id => assigns(:widget).id
    end

    it "redirects_to(@widget)" do
      subject.should redirect_to(assigns(:widget))
    end

    it "redirects_to /widgets/:id" do
      subject.should redirect_to("/widgets/#{assigns(:widget).id}")
    end
  end
end

When

I run "rspec spec/controllers/widgets_controller_spec.rb"

Then

the output should contain "4 examples, 0 failures"

Last published over 5 years ago by dchelimsky.

redirect_to matcher

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