[LRUG] Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <200> when using should_redirect_to

[James Adam]

Is anything within your testing suite (i.e. webrat) following the
redirect for you?

It doesn't look like you're using anything other than the default
actioncontroller testing tools, but I've often forgotten about this
kind of thing myself.

- James

On 26 July 2010 18:21, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <matthewrudyjacobs at gmail.com> wrote:
> have you used debugger?
> I suggest you see what the content actually looks like
>
> in particular response.body
>
> perhaps its actually some error page that is being displayed
> and erroneously returning a 200
>
> ie.
> check what your output is exactly
> before saying the assertion is broken.
>
> most likely its the code thats broken.
>
> On 26 July 2010 18:17, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I do not know if the test sends Accept text/html but I removed respond_to
>> .html and left only the redirect, so it should redirect for every type of
>> content, but I get the same message.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Riccardo
>>
>> On 26 July 2010 18:08, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 26 Jul 2010, at 18:05, Riccardo Tacconi wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <200>
>>> >
>>> > But why? That method really return a 302 (redirrect) method. Do I miss
>>> > something?
>>>
>>> does the request that your test sends have an Accepts header of
>>> text/html? Since the redirect is within the respond_to html block, I think
>>> it would return 200 for any other content types.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tim
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>>
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