problem with rspec test, undefined method 'post'

Question

I am writing a spec to test the behavior of the mashup_controller when someone sends a query through a URL. I need to simulate the parameters contained in the URL, and i read that the post() method will do that, however when i get an error:

1) MashupController simulates query      Failure/Error: post :create      NoMethodError:        undefined method `post' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x980bc50>      # ./mashup_controller_rspec.rb:9:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'  Finished in 0.20199 seconds 1 example, 1 failure  Failed examples:  rspec ./mashup_controller_rspec.rb:7 # MashupController simulates query 

Here is my code:

require 'spec_helper' require 'mashup_controller.rb'  describe MashupController do     it "simulates query" do         post :create         end end 

Sorry if I'm not making any sense. I am very new to rails and rspec. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

If the spec file is not under spec/controllers, methods like get and post will not be automatically made available by rspec-rails.

You either need to tag your spec:

describe MyController, type: :controller do   # ... end 

or include the module:

describe MyController do   include RSpec::Rails::ControllerExampleGroup   # ... end 

See the relevant code in rspec-rails.

Answer 2

1. Make sure you have gem spec-rails in your Gemfile
2. Your mashup_controller_rspec.rb should be under spec/controllers