Another thing to remember is to make sure to use the correct session instance so that you can properly encapsulate the url helpers.
Integration tests provide you with a default session. You can call all session methods directly from your tests
test "should integrate well" do
https!
get users_path
assert_response :success
end
All these helpers are using the default session instance, which if not changed, goes to "www.example.com". As has been mentioned the host can be changed by doing host!("my.new.host")
If you create multiple sessions using the open_session method, you must ALWAYS use that instance to call the helper methods. This will properly encapsulate the request. Otherwise rails will call the default session instance which may use a different host:
test "should integrate well" do
sess = open_session
sess.host! "my.awesome.host"
sess.get users_url #=> WRONG! will use default session object to build url.
sess.get sess.users_url #=> Correctly invoking url writer from my custom session with new host.
sess.assert_response :success
end
If you intended to use the default session object, then you'll have to alter that host as well:
test "should integrate well" do
sess = open_session
sess.host! "my.awesome.host"
host! sess.host #=> Set default session host to my custom session host.
sess.get users_url
end
In Feature specs, host! has been deprecated. Add these to your spec_helper.rb:
# Configure Capybara expected host
Capybara.app_host = "http://test.domain"
# Configure actual routes host during test
before(:each) do
default_url_options[:host] = <myhost>
end
Request specs
In Request specs, keep using host! :
host! "test.domain"
Alternatively refactor it in before(:each) blocks, or configure it globally for request specs at spec_helper.rb level:
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.before(:each, type: :request) do
host! "test.domain"
end
end
I tried many variations of @request.host, host!, and post path, args, {'SERVER_NAME' => my_secret_domain} without success, both as controller tests and feature tests. Very aggravating, as so many others reported success with those approaches.
The solution for me was:
request.headers["SERVER_NAME"] = my_secret_domain
post path, args
I'm running ruby 2.1.5p273, rspec 3.1.7 and Rails 4.2.0
I know it resembles the correct answer, but please bear with me. I don't like assignment operation in test just to set things up, I'd prefer an explicit stub. Interestingly, stubbing like this won't work:
I personally prefer stubbing over assignment, that way I get 2 benefit, one is that it will be validated by rspec's verify double, second is that it is explicitly saying that is a stub, not part of the test excercise.