How to set request headers in rspec request spec?

Question

In the controller spec, I can set http accept header like this:

request.accept = \"application/json\"

but in the request spec, \"request\"

Answer 1

Using rspec with Rack::Test::Methods

header 'X_YOUR_HEADER_VAR', 'val'
get '/path'

The header var will come through as X-Your-Header-Var

Answer 2

With RSpec 3 you can use the following syntax

get my_resource_path, params: {}, headers: { 'HTTP_ACCEPT' => "application/json" }

As described in the official Rspec documentation (the link points to v3.7)

Answer 3

To send both xhr: true and headers, I had to do e.g.:

my_headers = { "HTTP_ACCEPT": "application/json" }
get my_path, xhr: true, headers: my_headers

Answer 4

You should be able to specify HTTP headers as the third argument to your get() method as described here:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/RequestHelpers.html#method-i-get

and here

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/Session.html#method-i-process

So, you can try something like this:

get '/my/path', nil, {'HTTP_ACCEPT' => "application/json"}

Answer 5

I'm adding this here, as I got majorly stuck trying to do this in Rails 5.1.rc1

The get method signature is slightly different now.

You need to specify the options after the path as keyword arguments, i.e.

get /some/path, headers: {'ACCEPT' => 'application/json'}

FYI, the full set of keywords arguments are:

params: {}, headers: {}, env: {}, xhr: false, as: :symbol

Answer 6

Try something like:

get :index, :format => 'json'