Do routing specs support redirect routes? [RSpec]

Question

After digging fairly deeply on this issue, I\'ve come to an impasse between my understanding of the documentation and my results.

According to https://www.relishapp.com/

Answer 1

I was running into a similar case where I was trying to test a series of routes, some which should redirect and some which shouldn't. I wanted to keep them in a single routing spec, since that was the most logical way to group them.

I tried using describe: 'my route', type: request, but found that not to work. However, you can include RSpec::Rails::RequestExampleGroup in your spec context to gain access to the request spec methods. Something like:

describe "My Routes" do
  context "Don't Redirect" do
    it "gets URL that doesn't redirect" do
      get("business_users/internal_url").should route_to(controller: "business_users", action: "internal_url_action")
    end
  end

  context "Redirection" do
    include RSpec::Rails::RequestExampleGroup
    it "redirects to google.com" do
      get "/business_users/1/external_url"
      response.should redirect_to("http://www.google.com")
    end
  end
end