In Rails, how do you functional test a Javascript response format?

Question

If your controller action looks like this:

respond_to do |format|
  format.html { raise \'Unsupported\' }
  format.js # index.js.erb
end

and yo

Answer 1

Set the accepted content type to the type you want:

@request.accept = "text/javascript"

Combine this with your get :index test and it will make the appropriate call to the controller.