How do I generate a controller spec using rspec?

Question

I'm integrating devise_invitable into my application and I had to write a custom controller - InvitationsController - to override a few methods in the gem. Now, I want to write tests to cover what I've done but I can't figure out how to generate a spec for the new controller. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

the rspec way is

rails g rspec:controller passwords 

it gives

create  spec/controllers/passwords_controller_spec.rb 

--Update

You can configure your application to generate rspec when model or controller is created. Add to config/application.rb

# don't generate RSpec tests for views and helpers. config.generators do |g|   g.test_framework :rspec, fixture: true   g.fixture_replacement :factory_girl, dir: 'spec/factories'     g.view_specs false   g.helper_specs false end  $rails g model category   invoke  mongoid   create    app/models/category.rb   invoke    rspec   create      spec/models/category_spec.rb   invoke      factory_girl   create        spec/factories/categories.rb $rails g controller categories   create  app/controllers/categories_controller.rb   invoke  haml   create    app/views/categories   invoke  rspec   create    spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb   invoke  helper   create    app/helpers/categories_helper.rb   invoke    rspec   invoke  assets   invoke    coffee   create      app/assets/javascripts/categories.js.coffee   invoke    scss   create      app/assets/stylesheets/categories.css.scss 

Answer 2

If you are using Rails 3 + rspec and you installed rspec (rails g rspec:install), it should generate controller specs for each controller you generate (and others objects).

If you need to create one by hand. Just create a new new_controller_name_spec.rb in your spec/controllers.

require 'rails_helper'  describe NewControllerName do   # Test! end 

You could also try to re-generate the controller file, say No when it asks you if you want to overwrite the existing controller, and hopefully it will regenerate the rspec for that controller again.