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Share More Controller Specs with do_action

For most projects, our controllers tend to have some shared behavior that inherits from a base controller. Such as before filters for authentication or finding an AR model. RSpec also has a similar concept know as “shared behaviors”.

But it’s kind of difficult to do something like:

it 'should redirect to login if not logged in' do
  do_post
  response.should redirect_to(new_sessions_path)
end

because it might be a do_get, do_put, or do_delete.

do_action let’s you push common controller specs into a shared context without having to specify the exact action being called. add this to your spec_helper.rb

def do_action
  %w(get post put delete render).each do |action|
    self.send "do_#{action}" if self.respond_to?("do_#{action}")
  end
end

And now you can put the previous code in a shared login spec

it 'should redirect to login if not logged in' do
  do_action
  response.should redirect_to(new_sessions_path)`
end