[Rails] Re: get & post methods in controller's test

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 12:56:05 AM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:

But this will load the login action and not the login_create! After a
lot of searching and trying, I've wrote:
      post :login_create
... And it works as expected. However, after that I've tried:
      get :login_create
... And this works also! O_o

Controller specs bypass your routes entirely (as part as action invocation goes, they're still used if you try to generate a url inside the action).

If you do

get :action_name

then it will invoke that action with a get request, whether there's a route for it or not. 

post '/login'

fails because there are is no '/login' action (but there is a 'login' one).

If you write an spec request spec (or a rails integration test) then get/post are the rack test methods instead which do take actual paths.

Fred

So, what this kind of methods really do and how are intended to be used?

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