Sucker Punch testing

gistfile1.rb

#  REVISED TEST FILES

describe TwilioController, job: true do

  before { @rentalrequest = FactoryGirl.create(:rental_request) }
  
  it "enqueues a RoadRunner Twilio Alert job" do
    get :alert, rentalrequest_id: @rentalrequest.id
    RoadrunnerTwilioAlert.jobs.count.should == 1 # not sure what the right syntax is here?
  end
  
end

describe RoadrunnerTwilioAlert, job: true do # not sure what type of test this qualifies as under Rspec; at least, putting this as a controller test didn't seem to work
  
  before do
     @rentalrequest = FactoryGirl.create(:rental_request) 
     RoadrunnerTwilioAlert.new.async.perform(@rentalrequest.id) # will this call in the job appropriately?
   end
   
   it "should have updated the record"
     @rentalrequest.twilio_alert.should == "text"
   end
   
 end


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# spec/controllers/twilio_controller_spec.rb

describe TwilioController, job: true do

  before { @callrentalrequest = FactoryGirl.create(:call_rental_request) }
  before { @emailrentalrequest = FactoryGirl.create(:email_rental_request) }
  
  it "call test" do
    get :alert, rentalrequest_id: @callrentalrequest.id
    assigns(:rentalrequest).twilio_alert.should == "called"
  end
  
  it "email test" do
    get :alert, rentalrequest_id: @emailrentalrequest.id
    ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size == 1
  end	
  
end

# controllers/twilio_controller.rb

class TwilioController < ApplicationController

  def alert
    RoadrunnerTwilioAlert.new.async.perform(params[:rentalrequest_id])

    # After the job is complete, ensures the test can find the @rentalrequest variableclas
    @rentalrequest = RentalRequest.find(params[:rentalrequest_id])
    
    ...
  end
end

# jobs/roadrunner_twilio_alert.rb

Class RoadrunnerTwilioAlert
  include SuckerPunch::Job
  
  def perform(rentalrequest_id)
    ActiveRecord::Base.connection_pool.with_connection do
      @rentalrequest = RentalRequest.find(rentalrequest_id)
      ...#perform twilio
      if twilio.call?
        @rentalrequest.update_attributes(twilio_alert:"called")
      else
      	ErrorMailer.twilio_email(params).deliver
      end
    end
  end
end

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# Outcome of test is that ONLY the email tests pass. All the tests where I'm expecting hte record to be updated with a "called" flag return: 

    #Failure/Error: assigns(:rentalrequest).twilio_alert.should == "call"
       #expected: "call"
          #got: nil (using ==)