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Challenge: Create a New Blog Post

Explore how to implement request tests for creating and listing blog posts in Rails. Learn to handle the test scenario involving a BlogPost model with title and body, and practice passing request tests without needing user authentication.

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Problem statement

You’re given the following test scenario:

Ruby
RSpec.describe "Blog posts", type: :request do
  describe "POST /blog_posts" do
    it "creates a blog post in the database" do
      params = { title: "This is a post", body: "This is the post's body" }
      post blog_posts_path, params: { blog_post: params }
      expect(BlogPost.count).to eq(1)
    end
  end
end

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