Test.host in Rspec testing Rails redirect

Question

Here is a line from my test.rb file in the Rails 3.1.12 application:

 config.action_mailer.default_url_options = config.action_controller.default_url_options = { :host => "127.0.0.1", :port => 3000 } 

Now here is the test I am doing:

 subject { get :success } subject.should redirect_to(:home) 

This causes an error:

 Failure/Error: subject.should redirect_to(:home) Expected response to be a redirect to <http://127.0.0.1:3000/> but was a redirect to <http://test.host/> 

What I did wrong? Or where is the testing host configured?

Here is the spec_helper.rb file for the full reference.

 # This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate rspec:install' ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = 'test' require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__) require 'rspec/rails' require 'rspec/autorun' require 'capybara/rspec' # Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc, # in spec/support/ and its subdirectories. Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f} RSpec.configure do |config| # ## Mock Framework # # If you prefer to use mocha, flexmock or RR, uncomment the appropriate line: # # config.mock_with :mocha # config.mock_with :flexmock # config.mock_with :rr # Remove this line if you're not using ActiveRecord or ActiveRecord fixtures config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures" # If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your # examples within a transaction, remove the following line or assign false # instead of true. config.use_transactional_fixtures = true # If true, the base class of anonymous controllers will be inferred # automatically. This will be the default behavior in future versions of # rspec-rails. config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false # Run specs in random order to surface order dependencies. If you find an # order dependency and want to debug it, you can fix the order by providing # the seed, which is printed after each run. # --seed 1234 config.order = "random" end Capybara.configure do |config| config.app_host = 'http://127.0.0.1' config.server_port = 3000 end 

Answer 1

To set the application port and server with Capybara, add the following lines to your spec/spec_helper.rb file

 Capybara.configure do |config| config.app_host = 'http://127.0.0.1' config.server_port = 3000 end 

- Edit # 1

A good overview of test domains is available at http://blog.joncairns.com/2012/12/testing-domains-with-rails-and-test-unit/

Answer 2

This worked for me:

 # spec/controllers/whatever_controller_spec.rb before :each do @request.host = '127.0.0.1:3000' end 

Based on @ dan-reedy link. It is amazingly annoying to configure exactly the same parameters in config / environment, spec / spec_helper.rb and here again ... all in slightly different versions (with or without "http: //", with a port number or a specified port separately) . Even the syntax of Capybara.configure cannot remain consistent between versions ...

But try and see if that allows.

Answer 3

Here's a workaround that seems to fix the issue for me:

In spec / rails_helper.rb add this

 module ActionDispatch class TestRequest # Override host, by default it is test.host def host 'localhost:3000' end end end