Project: RSpec Rails 2.4

Publisher: RSpec

views are stubbed by default

By default, controller specs stub views with a template that renders an empty
string instead of the views in the app. This allows you specify which view
template an action should try to render regardless of whether the template
compiles cleanly.

NOTE: unlike rspec-rails-1.x, the real template must exist.

Scenarios

expect template that is rendered by controller action (passes)

Given

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

require "spec_helper"

describe WidgetsController do
  describe "index" do
    it "renders the index template" do
      get :index
      response.should render_template("index")
      response.body.should == ""
    end
    it "renders the widgets/index template" do
      get :index
      response.should render_template("widgets/index")
      response.body.should == ""
    end
  end
end

When

I run "rspec ./spec"

Then

the examples should all pass

expect template that is not rendered by controller action (fails)

Given

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

require "spec_helper"

describe WidgetsController do
  describe "index" do
    it "renders the 'new' template" do
      get :index
      response.should render_template("new")
    end
  end
end

When

I run "rspec ./spec"

Then

the output should contain "1 example, 1 failure"

Last published about 5 years ago by dchelimsky.

views are stubbed by default

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