ruby-on-rails: mocking a route in functional test

Question

I have a route in my routes.rb file:

map.connect 'login', :controller => 'users', :action => 'login'

and I have a partial being rendered in a view as:

login_path

This view gets called in the functional test of the controller.

However, in the functional test I get the error:

ActionView::TemplateError: undefined local variable or method `login_path' for #<ActionView::Base:0x4762c90>

1) What's the best way of mocking it for the test?

2) Does this indicate a design flaw?

Answer 1

map.connect will add an unnamed route. What you probably want in your routes.rb is:

map.login 'login', :controller => 'users', :action => 'login'

That will create the named routes login_path and login_url for you.