Posted by joakimk, Thu Jan 28 15:28:00 UTC 2010

This is one way to test before_filters in your ApplicationController or other abstract controllers. Make sure you don’t miss the “after” part!

One thing to keep in mind though is that re-loading the routes can take some serious time (6 seconds in the app Im working on). I’d like to find a better way of testing this.

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../spec_helper'

describe ApplicationController do

  class TestController < ApplicationController
    def index
    end
  end

  controller_name :test

  before :each do
    ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| 
      map.resources :test
    end
  end

  after :all do
    load(RAILS_ROOT + "/config/routes.rb")
  end

  it "should do something" do
    get :index
    # assert stuff
  end

end

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