making two requests to the same controller in rails integrations specs

Question

I\'m having problem making two requests to the same url in a rails integration test, with rspec

it \'does something\' do

  # get \'/something\', {:status=>\'         


        

Answer 1

With plain old Rails test suite, functional tests are for single request and if you want to test flows you should use integration tests (you can reset the controller in functional tests).

Controller specs from rspec-rails inherit from Rails functional tests, so they have same limitation. You can use rspec with capybara or webrat (I recommend the former) for integration tests.

Also, recent versions of rspec-rails has "request specs" which "mix in behaivour of Rails integration tests": https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails