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Webrat and Rails: Using assert_contain after click_button gives me "You are being redirected"


I'm writing an integration test for a rails application using webrat. After filling out a form, the user presses submit and an account is created.

click_button "Submit"
assert_contain "Your Account Has Been Created"

However, the test fails:

expected the following element's content to include "Your Account Has Been Created":
You are being redirected.
<false> is not true.

Normally to follow a redirect I would use post_via_redirect, but from just looking at Webrat's examples, click_button followed by assert_contain should work

I just started using Webrat, so am I missing something obvious here? Why am I stuck with the redirect response?

Thanks!

Deb


Solution

  • With a new Rails 3 app, I also had this problem testing a simple method which included a redirect_to call in the controller. The method itself worked fine, but Webrat would return the "You are being redirected." response.

    Adding in a 'Then show me the page' step in cucumber (so the page that webrat sees opens in the browser) showed the 'You are being redirected." response with a link to an example.org link.

    Based on this I discovered Yannimac's patch ( http://groups.google.com/group/webrat/browse_thread/thread/fb5ff3fccd97f3df ):

    #/lib/webrat/core/session.rb
    #starting at line 288
    
    def current_host
    - URI.parse(current_url).host || @custom_headers["Host"] || "www.example.com"
    + URI.parse(current_url).host || @custom_headers["Host"] || default_current_host
    end
    
    + def default_current_host
    +   adapter.class==Webrat::RackAdapter ? "example.org" : "www.example.com"
    + end 
    

    Making these changes fixed the issue, so redirect_to calls with Webrat now work correctly.