Rails RSpec Routing: Testing actions in :except do NOT route

Question

Fairly simple problem (I\'d have thought), but I\'m having some issues:

In Rails 3.1.0.rc6/RSpec 2.6.0, I\'m trying to test the routing of my \'products\' resource,

Answer 1

Do you have a fallback route? Because that would explain why no error is thrown, but indeed trying to evaluate route_to("products#edit", :id => 1) would raise, because the route does not exist.

Answer 2

I don't know why the lambda would fail, but I don't think the rspec-rails dsl is intended to be used like that. Have you tried something like this?

{ :get => "/products/1/edit" }.should_not be_routable

http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/routing-specs/be-routable-matcher

So you can't specify what it doesn't route to, but you can specify that it doesn't get routed.