Routing Error when running controller spec (rspec)

Question

I feel like I have everything I need in my routes.rb, my controller, and my controller spec, but for some reason I'm still getting a routing error (ActionController::RoutingError). Here's my controller:

class HunchController < ActionController::Base
  protect_from_forgery

  def results
    auth_token_key = params[:auth_token_key]
    user_id = params[:user_id]
    @user = User.create!
    @user.auth_token = @user.get_auth_token(auth_token_key, user_id)
    @recommended_books = @user.get_recommended_books(@user.auth_token)
  end
end

Here's my controller spec:

require 'spec_helper'

describe HunchController do
  describe "POST 'results'" do
    before do
      @params = {
        :auth_token_key => "my auth token",
        :user_id => "my user id"
      }
    end

    it "succeeds" do
      post :results, @params
      response.should be_success
    end
  end
end

And here's my routes.rb:

MyApplicationName::Application.routes.draw do
  root :to => 'hunch#index'

  resources :users
  post 'hunch/results' => "hunch#results"
  match '/results' => 'hunch#results'
end

EDIT: Here's my rake routes output:

         root        /                         {:controller=>"pages", :action=>"index"}
hunch_results POST   /hunch/results(.:format)  {:controller=>"hunch", :action=>"results"}
      results        /results(.:format)        {:controller=>"hunch", :action=>"results"}
        users GET    /users(.:format)          {:action=>"index", :controller=>"users"}
              POST   /users(.:format)          {:action=>"create", :controller=>"users"}
     new_user GET    /users/new(.:format)      {:action=>"new", :controller=>"users"}
    edit_user GET    /users/:id/edit(.:format) {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"users"}
         user GET    /users/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"show", :controller=>"users"}
              PUT    /users/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"update", :controller=>"users"}

EDIT #2: I'm getting this error with my users#show test too. Here's the actual error:

  1) UsersController#show succeeds
     Failure/Error: get :show
     ActionController::RoutingError:
       No route matches {:controller=>"users", :action=>"show"}
     # ./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb:13:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Given that routing error you've posted the wrong spec. The error is in the UsersController spec, not the HunchController spec. — Andrew Marshall

Rustam A. Gasanov Rustam A. Gasanov · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-04T11:35:24

Ok, I got the same problem when gem journey was updated to the latest version. And find that if you got a route like this:

user GET    /users/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"show", :controller=>"users"}

which have a param (id in this case), you necessarily need to render a link in template or use a user_path/user_url variables in controller with param too, so in your templates try to find:

<%= link_to "linkname", user_path %>

and replace by

<%= link_to "linkname", user_path(@user) %>

or search in any controller for the user_path/user_url usage and replace them by user_path(@user)/user_url(@user) accordingly.

Routing Error when running controller spec (rspec)

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