Inbulit ruby on rails test method

Hello rubies,

      One of best feature which rails provides is inbuilt testing. I like to write the test case to trace behavior of application.

      Below the list of the method which you use during functional and integration tests.

Functional Test

  1. HTML request
      a. Get method
          get :action_name, :parent_params => {:child1 => "arg1"}
      b. Post method
          post :action_name, :parent_params => {:child1 => "arg1", :child2 => "arg2"}

  2. Ajax request
      a. Post method
          xhr :post, :action_name, , :parent_params => {:child1 => "arg1"}

Integration Test

  If you want to pass additional header than use  

  headers = {'HTTP_HOST' => "localhost", 'Content-Type' => 'text/xml'}

  1. HTML request

      a. Get method
          get_via_redirect '/controller_name/action_name', {:arg1 => 'test'}

      b. Post method 

          post_via_redirect '/controller_name/action_name', {:arg1 => 'test'}, headers
      c. Put method        
          put_via_redirect '/controller_name/action_name', {:arg1 => 'test'}
      d. Delete method

          delete_via_redirect '/controller_name/action_name', {:arg1 => 'test'}

      f. Instead of method*_via_redirect you can use alternate method

        http_method like post, put, get, delete        
        request_via_redirect http_method, '/controller_name/action_name', {:arg1 => 'test'}

    

  2. Ajax request

      a. Post method

          xml_http_request :post, "/controller_name/action_name", {:arg1 => 'test'}, headers

This are the basic methods. If you need detail information on this then refer
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html