https://github.com/rails/rails-controller-testing

Brings back `assigns` and `assert_template` to your Rails tests
https://github.com/rails/rails-controller-testing

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Brings back `assigns` and `assert_template` to your Rails tests

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/rails/rails-controller-testing
Owner: rails
License: mit
Created: 2015-05-23T06:25:51.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2023-06-06T22:13:08.000Z (over 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-02-24T04:06:39.412Z (8 days ago)
Language: Ruby
Homepage: https://github.com/rails/rails-controller-testing
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Forks: 54
Open Issues: 12
Releases: 2
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE

Rails::Controller::Testing

This gem brings back assigns to your controller tests as well as assert_template
to both controller and integration tests.

These methods were removed in Rails 5.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails-controller-testing'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rails-controller-testing

RSpec

See https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/1393.

rspec-rails automatically integrates with this gem since version 3.5.0.
Adding the gem to your Gemfile is sufficient.

If you use an older version of rspec-rails, you can manually include the
modules in your rails_helper.

RSpec.configure do |config|
  [:controller, :view, :request].each do |type|
    config.include ::Rails::Controller::Testing::TestProcess, :type => type
    config.include ::Rails::Controller::Testing::TemplateAssertions, :type => type
    config.include ::Rails::Controller::Testing::Integration, :type => type
  end
end

Outside Rails

For projects and gems using controller tests outside of a Rails application,
invoke the Rails::Controller::Testing.install method inside your test suite
setup to include the required modules on controller test cases.

# test/test_helper.rb

require 'rails-controller-testing'
Rails::Controller::Testing.install

Usage

assigns

assigns allows you to access the instance variables that have been passed to
your views.

class PostsController < ActionController::Base
  def index
    @posts = Post.all
  end
end

class PostControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
  def test_index
    get :index
    assert_equal Post.all, assigns(:posts)
  end
end

assert_template

assert_template allows you to assert that certain templates have been rendered.

class PostControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
  def test_index
    get :index
    assert_template 'posts/index'
  end
end

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

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Extracting `assigns` and `assert_template` from ActionDispatch.

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