using url_for() in a functional test

[biot023]

Hallo -- I have an assertion in a functional test that looks like this:

assert_redirected_to :controller=>'properties',:action=>'list'

This creates this error:

response is not a redirection to all of the options supplied (redirection is <"http://test.host/properties/list">)

This is due, I believe (tell me if I'm wrong!), to the fact that the code that generates the url uses:

url=url_for(:controller=>'properties',:action=>'list')
# more code here...
redirect_to(url)

However, when I try to rewrite my assertion to use the url_for() function like so:

assert_redirected_to(url_for(:controller=>'properties',:action=>'list'))

I get a NoMethodError for url_for().
Can anyone help here?
Cheers,
doug.

[sweatje]

perhaps

assert_redirected_to(ActionController::Base::url_for(:controller=>'properties',:action=>'list'))

[Stevenwulf]

I'm assuming that before your assert_redirected_to() call you called

redirect_tocontroller=>'properties', :action=>list)

If this is the case, I think you only need to call assert_redirected_toaction=>'list') as rails knows you're using the 'properties' controller.

[Luke Redpath]

Is there a reason why you are doing:

url=url_for(:controller=>'properties',:action=>'list')
# more code here...
redirect_to(url)

When you can just do:

redirect_to :controller=>'properties',:action=>'list'

Its worth pointing out that its Ruby convention not to use parentheses around your method parameters in most circumstances.

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyStyleGuide

[biot023]

Cheers for those -- the reason for any stupid errors is that I am still learning ruby & rails. Well, that & my being stupid anyway...
Thanks alot,
doug.