Rails Controller Specs with users, roles and nested routes

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve long put off testing my controllers because of user authentication and nested controllers, dealing with stubs, etc.

But today, a fully working test!

As background, Advertisers have many trackers and the routes look like this:

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
 map.resources :advertisers do |advertisers|
 advertisers.resources :trackers
 end
end

To set everything up in the specs, I included all the files in the spec/support directory and used Mocha as my mock framework

Dir[File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'support','**','*.rb'))].each {|f| require f}

Spec::Runner.configure do |config|
 config.mock_with :mocha
end

Then I set up my factories (rather than fixtures) using Factory Girl

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Rails Controller Specs with users, roles and nested routes