rspec testing a controller post changing my params from symbols to strings and breaking my tests

Question

In my controller spec I am doing this:

it \"should create new message\" do
  Client.should_receive(:create).with({:title => \'Mr\'})
  post \'create\' , :clie         


        

Answer 1

@ssmithone you could use ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess to pass params as symbols instead of strings. This should work:

it "should create new message" do
  Client.should_receive(:create).with({:title => 'Mr'}.with_indifferent_access)
  post 'create', :client => {:title => "Mr"}
end

Answer 2

It's because you are passing a symbol and not a string. This should fix it :

it "should create new message" do
  Client.should_receive(:create).with({:title => 'Mr'})
  post 'create' , :client => {"title" => "Mr" }
end

Here's a blogpost about it: "Understanding Ruby Symbols"