Testing routes with Rails 3.2 mountable engines and RSpec 2

engine.rb

# your-engine/lib/magic/rails/engine.rb

module Magic
  module Rails
    module Engine
      ##
      # Automatically append all of the current engine's routes to the main
      # application's route set. This needs to be done for ALL functional tests that
      # use engine routes, since the mounted routes don't work during tests.
      #
      # @param [Symbol] engine_symbol Optional; if provided, uses this symbol to
      # locate the engine class by name, otherwise uses the module of the calling
      # test case as the presumed name of the engine.
      #
      # @author Jason Hamilton ([email protected])
      # @author Matthew Ratzloff ([email protected])
      # @author Xavier Dutreilh ([email protected])
      def load_engine_routes(engine_symbol = nil)
        if engine_symbol
          engine_name = engine_symbol.to_s.camelize
        else
          # No engine provided, so presume the current engine is the one to load
          engine_name = self.class.name.split("::").first.split("(").last
        end
        engine = ("#{engine_name}::Engine").constantize

        # Append the routes for this module to the existing routes
        ::Rails.application.routes.disable_clear_and_finalize = true
        ::Rails.application.routes.clear!
        ::Rails.application.routes_reloader.paths.each { |path| load(path) }
        ::Rails.application.routes.draw do
          resourced_routes = []

          named_routes = engine.routes.named_routes.routes

          engine.routes.routes.each do |route|
            # Call the method by hand based on the symbol
            path = "/#{engine_name.underscore}#{route.path.spec}"
            verb = route.verb.to_s.downcase.gsub(/^.+\^(.+)\$.+$/, '\1').to_sym
            requirements = route.requirements
            if path_helper = named_routes.key(route)
              requirements[:as] = path_helper
            elsif route.requirements[:controller].present?
              # Presume that all controllers referenced in routes should also be
              # resources and append that routing on the end so that *_path helpers
              # will still work
              resourced_routes << route.requirements[:controller].gsub("#{engine_name.underscore}/", "").to_sym
            end
            send(verb, path, requirements) if respond_to?(verb)
          end

          # Add each route, once, to the end under a scope to trick path helpers.
          # This will probably break as soon as there is route name overlap, but
          # we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
          resourced_routes.uniq!
          scope engine_name.underscore do
            resourced_routes.each do |resource|
              resources resource
            end
          end
        end

        # Finalize the routes
        ::Rails.application.routes.finalize!
        ::Rails.application.routes.disable_clear_and_finalize = false
      end
    end
  end
end

Rails::Engine.send(:include, Magic::Rails::Engine)

routing.rb

# your-engine/spec/support/routing.rb

require 'magic/rails/engine'

# Replace RspecRouting by the namespace used by your engine
RspecRouting::Engine.load_engine_routes