4 Things I Assert in Rails Controller Tests

1. ActiveRecord Calls (using mocking)
2. Assigns
3. Flash
4. Responses

And if the response content type is not going to be HTML I will test that as well.

Cucumber Rails: undefined local variable or method `node'

I've been stung by this a couple of times so it's time to add it to my blog. This exception is raised when Cucumber follows a link using the click_link Capybara method. An example of the error:

When I follow "Add brand"                      # features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:33
      undefined local variable or method `node' for # (NameError)
      ./features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:35:in `block (2 levels) in '
      ./features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:14:in `with_scope'
      ./features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:34:in `/^(?:|I )follow "([^"]*)"(?: within "([^"]*)")?$/'
      features/manage_brand.feature:14:in `When I follow "Add brand"'

This has been report in the following places:

• undefined local variable or method `node' on RSpec Lighthouse Issue Tracker
• "click_link fails" cucumber-rails Github Issues

The solution is to either remove the following line from env.rb:

require 'cucumber/capybara-javascript-emulation'

or better yet, simply bundle the Gem from the 'master' branch. Add this to your Gemfile:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'cucumber-rails', :git => 'git://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber-rails.git'
  # other gems...
end

Important Note: You must regenerate your env.rb using rails g cucumber:install otherwise you will receive the following error:

no such file to load -- cucumber/rails/active_record (LoadError)