RSpec. Rails 3.2. Instance variable checking. Behavior testing

Question

I have a question with RSpec testing. I am using FactoryGirl, Capybara 2.* and trying to testing my website behavior.

Scenario of testing: User clicking on sign_in button (devise controller), he is redirected to root_path (managed by MyController). After his redirection before_filter :setup_params should assign to @app variable (in action :find_apps in MyController) some values. I would like to ensure that @app is not nil and that values were assigned.

here is my sign_in_spec.rb

require "spec_helper.rb"
require "mymodel.rb"

describe MyContoller, :type => :feature do

  before do
    visit '/users/sign_in'
  end

  it "Shall redirect to user and ensure that @app is not nil" do

    user = FactoryGirl.build(:user_monit)
    fill_in "user[email]", with: user.email
    fill_in "user[password]", with: user.password

    #expect {click_button "Sign in"}.to change {@myapp}.from(nil)
    click_button "Sign in"

    get :find_apps
    assigns(:myapp).should_not be_nil

  end
end

require section in my spec_helper.rb

 require 'rspec/rails'
 require 'rspec/autorun'
 require 'capybara/rails'
 require 'capybara/rspec'
 require 'mocha/setup'
 require 'factory_girl'
 ....
 config.include RSpec::Rails::RequestExampleGroup, type: :feature

I have got several mistakes:

1) result should have changed, but is still nil
2) bad argument error for get :find_apps (ArgumentError: bad argument (expected URI object or URI string))

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Adeptus Adeptus · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-21T10:05:29

You have to create User before you can login so :

user = FactoryGirl.create(:user_monit)

second issue you can resolve adding normal uri instead :find_apps the same like you make in before block

RSpec. Rails 3.2. Instance variable checking. Behavior testing

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