Rspec: how to spec request.env in a helper spec?

Question

In my helper module, I have:

def abc(url)
  ...
  if request.env[\'HTTP_USER_AGENT\']
    do something
  end
end

In my spec file, I have:

Answer 1

You can override user-agent set in the request env by doing the following.

before(:each) do
  @meth = :abc
  helper.request.user_agent = 'something else'
end

Then, in your spec:

it "does stuff" do
  expect(helper.send(@meth, "some_url")).to # ...
end