RSpec controller testing - blank response.body

Question

I am stuck with a problem when testing my controllers with RSpec - the response.body call always returns an empty string. In browser everything renders correctly, and cucumber f

Answer 1

By default, RSpec-rails configuration disables rendering of templates for controller specs

One of the ways to fix this is by making sure to enable the render_views setting in your rails_helper.rb file. In this way, you make it able to work globally in all your tests.

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.render_views
end

Or use render_views declaration an individual group:

describe User do
  render_views
end

You can read more about this here.