Testing Routes
Explore how to write tests for Rails routes using RSpec's route_to and be_routable matchers. Understand how to verify routing maps URLs to controllers and actions effectively, including handling complex custom routes.
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Route testing
Let’s start the tour with a part of the Rails layer that’s not commonly tested in isolation but where testing can sometimes be valuable. Although Rails routing basics are simple, the desire to customize Rails’ response to URLs can lead to confusion about exactly what our application is going to do when converting between a URL and a Rails action. Rails provide a way to specify route behavior in a test.
Routing tests are not ...