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Rspec: controller example misbehaving

I am using Rails 6 with Ruby 2.5.5. I am trying to write an example for a controller method and something is baffling me for the past few hours:

Why does this:

post :create, params: { purchases: [{ board_id: 1, squares: [ [3,4] ] }] }, format: :json

pass these params:

POST { "purchases": [{"board_id"=>"16", "squares"=>[["3"], ["4"]] }] }

Note how [3,4] is being turned into [["3"], ["4"]]. It works fine in the browser, just not with rspec.

Solution

  • According to https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/985 this fixed it:

    post :create, params: { purchases: [{ board_id: 1, squares: [ [3,4] ] }] }, as: :json

    Thank you Rspec!