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Ruby

Posted by james white
james white
78,399 Points

Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application

Testing Responses: Challenge 1 of 1

Add an assertion to make sure the response was successful

james white
james white
78,399 Points

At first I thought it was:

assert_response :successful

(seems logical, right?)

after much searching on the forum I came across this post:

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/ror-creating-the-friendship-error

that had this code:

    should "get new and return success" do
        get :new
        assert_response :success
    end

Hmmmmmm - so I thought maybe:

        get :new

        assert_response :success

but nooooooooooooooo!

Alright, then...maybe just drop the

get :new (don't repeat it twice..because it already has one 'get:new' to start with..

Yes! It passed (whew)

Morale of the story: don't over think this question, but do search the forum for code snippets --there is a lot of good content there :)

Oh, here's the link to the challenge:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-simple-ruby-on-rails-application/testing-the-whole-app/testing-responses

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

can you post a link to the challenge? i cant give you a definite answer without seeing it myself but the Rails Testing Guide lists some of the assertions that come with mini test, one of them being

assert_response

Asserts that the response comes with a specific status code. You can specify :success to indicate 200-299, :redirect to indicate 300-399, :missing to indicate 404, or :error to match the 500-599 range. You can also pass an explicit status number or its symbolic equivalent.

so to assert that the response was successful you would use:

assert_response :success