JanDintel

Using Rspec with Rails 4 patch method

In Rails 4 PATCH is the new HTTP methode for an update action. You can find the details here: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/2/25/edge-rails-patch-is-the-new-primary-http-method-for-updates/

Using PATCH in your specs

As you can imagine you need to use the PATCH method to test the update action in your controller. Because of how the users controller in this example works you need to specify the id and user. This particular spec tests whether the user gets redirected if it's not logged in.

(./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb)

require 'spec_helper'

	require 'net/http'

	def ping(endpoint)
	uri = URI.parse(endpoint)
	http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)

	if uri.scheme == 'https'
	http.use_ssl = true
	http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
	end

	require 'virtus'

	class Page
	include Virtus.model

	attribute :title, String
	attribute :font, String, :default => 'Helvetica'
	attribute :header, String, :default => 'Welcome'
	attribute :author, String, :default => 'Mies', :allow_nil => false
	end

	{
	"auto_complete_commit_on_tab": false,
	"theme": "itg.flat.dark.sublime-theme",
	"color_scheme": "Packages/Theme - itg.flat/itg.dark.tmTheme",
	"itg_small_tabs": true,
	"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
	"font_size": 12,
	"ignored_packages":
	[
	"Vintage"

	# spec/factories/factory.rb

	factory :factory_name, class: Klass do
	skip_create

	ignore do
	variable "Hello"
	end

	initialize_with do

	# ~/.zshrc

	alias migratetestdb='rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test'
	alias droptestdb='rake db:drop RAILS_ENV=test; rake db:create RAILS_ENV=test; rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test'
	alias resettestdb='rake db:reset RAILS_ENV=test'

	# spec/support/db_cleaner.rb

	RSpec.configure do \|config\|

	config.before(:suite) do
	DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
	DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
	end

	config.before(:each) do

	# app/controllers/infrastructure_controller.rb

	class InfrastructureController < ActionController::Base

	def health_check
	@checks = { database: ActiveRecord::Migrator.current_version,
	redis: redis_check,
	version: %x(git log --pretty=format:'%h' -1) }
	if @checks[:redis] == "Not connected"
	@notification = "Error 500, Can't find Redis"

	git config --global alias.co checkout
	git config --global alias.st status
	git config --global alias.br branch
	git config --global alias.com commit
	git config --global alias.pl pull
	git config --global alias.ps push