How do I use Capybara get, show, post, put in controller tests?

Question

I'm just not sure what the exact way to word it is..

This tells me 'No response yet. Request a page first.'

it "should list searches" do
  get 'index'
  page.should have_selector('tr#search-1')
end

Is it meant to be like this instead?

it "should list searches" do
  get 'index' do
    page.should have_selector('tr#search-1')
  end
end

That way doesn't seem to actually test anything though.

What's the correct way?

Answer 1

According to this, Capybara doesn't support PUT and DELETE requests with the default driver. PUT and DELETE are usually faked with javascript to accomodate REST based architecture.

I haven't checked, but I believe that you can use PUT and DELETE with Capybara if you make it use one of it's JS compatible drivers such as Selenium.