### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/1 "2017-02-11T23:39:35Z")
My “learning experience” plugin works. Not everything I have tried worked, but I have been able to find ways to do much of what I’ve been interested in having it do.
Experience has taught me that I prefer to test often and fix problems before things get more complex. I understand that developers might feel that testing is boring, or at least not as much fun as writing “real” code. But I know myself well enough that if I tell myself “I’ll do it later”, there will be a good chance I will never do it, and even if I do the task will have become so large it will be intimidating.
Hence my interest in writing QUnit and RSpec tests earlier rather than later.
I often look at examples of what works to guide my learning. Sadly, most plugins I have looked at do not have RSpec tests. Discourse itself has many, and for the most part they all pass. (jhead and svgo being the pesky exceptions for me)
I am particularly interested in finding a way for the "get"s to work.
Frustratingly, when I try a path I get a “no matching action” message, and when I try an action I get a “no matching path” message.
The tests as they are now are a bit of a mishmash. some meaningless, some that pass but not for the reason I’d hoped, and there are a lot of commented out lines.
That is, the tests are very much in a “pre-alpha newbie” state.
[discourse-newpage/spec at master · Mittineague/discourse-newpage · GitHub](https://github.com/Mittineague/discourse-newpage/tree/master/spec)
I imagine most of my problems result from my newbieness and hope I’m just missing something simple. I have been mostly using the Relish documentation, but mabye I should be looking elsewhere?
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/2 "2017-02-12T03:37:44Z")
Babble has tests! 😃
>
I have strong opinions on testing these types of things, but I won’t bore anyone with them here. PM me if you’d like a download.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/3 "2017-02-12T04:08:32Z")
Thanks, I had thought that finding plugins that had QUnit tests was the proverbial “needle in a haystack” until I started looking for those with RSpec tests.
I have not done TDD, but I do appreciate the benefits that having tests can provide. And l would prefer to not “write them later” but as I go along.
Having an example should prove to be very helpful. I’ll download a copy from the repo and start studying it, then start experimenting.
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/4 "2017-02-12T04:15:09Z")
One thing I found was that I had to run rspec from the discourse root directory, rather than in the plugin directory
(ie, I have to do
```plaintext
cd ~/workspace/discourse
rspec plugins/babble/spec
```
rather than
```plaintext
cd ~/workspace/discourse/plugins/babble
rspec spec
```
)
This is probably a failing of my environment or my tests somehow, but don’t have motivation to find out why.
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### Author:  [@jafeth.diazc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jafeth.diazc)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/5 "2017-02-17T02:55:21Z")
Hello @gdpelican, I tried to run the babble controller specs and I got about 16 errors with the following form:
```
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"destroy_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"5979", :post_id=>"5727"}
```
Which were unexpected since the routeset was specified like this:
```
describe ::Babble::TopicsController do
routes { ::Babble::Engine.routes }
end
```
as shown in the rspec docs for [engine routes](https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/routing-specs/engine-routes).
I must say I didn’t modify babble code and also I got the same errors with the specs of a plugin I’m writing.
What do you think could be the problem?
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/6 "2017-02-20T01:30:51Z")
Hm, not sure. I’ll have a play in a bit and see if I can repro.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/7 "2017-02-20T02:04:25Z")
You’ll need to run the plugin specs with
```
LOAD_PLUGINS=1 rspec plugins/babble/spec
```
or
```
rake plugin:spec["babble"]
```
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### Author:  [@jafeth.diazc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jafeth.diazc)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/8 "2017-02-20T03:14:03Z")
That’s the proper way to run the specs, right?
However, perhaps I didn’t explain myself correctly in my previous message, but I do get the specs to run. The problem is that I get the following errors:
```
Failures:
1) Babble::TopicsController post does not affect user's post count
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :create_post, raw: "I am a test post", id: topic.id }.not_to change { user.post_count }
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"create_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6073", :raw=>"I am a test post"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:128:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:128:in `block (3 levels) in '
2) Babble::TopicsController post cannot create a post in a topic the user does not have access to
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :create_post, raw: "I am a test post!", id: topic.id }.not_to change { topic.posts.count }
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"create_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6075", :raw=>"I am a test post!"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:117:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:117:in `block (3 levels) in '
3) Babble::TopicsController post does not allow posts from users who are not logged in
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :create_post, raw: "I am a test post", id: topic.id }.not_to change { topic.posts.count }
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"create_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6077", :raw=>"I am a test post"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:122:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:122:in `block (3 levels) in '
4) Babble::TopicsController post adds a new post to the chat topic
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :create_post, raw: "I am a test post", id: topic.id }.to change { topic.posts.count }.by(1)
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"create_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6079", :raw=>"I am a test post"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:93:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:93:in `block (3 levels) in '
5) Babble::TopicsController post can add a short post to the chat topic
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :create_post, raw: "Hi!", id: topic.id }.to change { topic.posts.count }.by(1)
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"create_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6081", :raw=>"Hi!"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:105:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:105:in `block (3 levels) in '
6) Babble::TopicsController post does not allow posts with no content to be made
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :create_post, id: topic.id }.not_to change { topic.posts.count }
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"create_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6083"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:111:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:111:in `block (3 levels) in '
7) Babble::TopicsController post returns the raw value of the post
Failure/Error: xhr :post, :create_post, raw: "I am a test post", id: topic.id
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"create_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6085", :raw=>"I am a test post"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:99:in `block (3 levels) in '
8) Babble::TopicsController update_post ensures the post belongs to the topic
Failure/Error: xhr :post, :update_post, raw: raw, id: another_topic.id, post_id: topic_post.id
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"update_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6098", :post_id=>"5842", :raw=>"Here is an updated post!"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:201:in `block (3 levels) in '
9) Babble::TopicsController update_post does not allow updates from users who are not logged in
Failure/Error: xhr :post, :update_post, raw: raw, id: topic.id, post_id: topic_post.id
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"update_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6099", :post_id=>"5844", :raw=>"Here is an updated post!"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:189:in `block (3 levels) in '
10) Babble::TopicsController update_post does not allow updates to posts the user can't edit
Failure/Error: xhr :post, :update_post, raw: raw, id: topic.id, post_id: another_post.id
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"update_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6101", :post_id=>"5847", :raw=>"Here is an updated post!"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:175:in `block (3 levels) in '
11) Babble::TopicsController update_post does not allow posts to be updated to no content
Failure/Error: xhr :post, :update_post, raw: '', id: topic.id, post_id: topic_post.id
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"update_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6103", :post_id=>"5848", :raw=>""}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:195:in `block (3 levels) in '
12) Babble::TopicsController update_post updates an existing post
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :update_post, raw: raw, id: topic.id, post_id: topic_post.id }.not_to change { topic.posts.count }
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"update_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6105", :post_id=>"5850", :raw=>"Here is an updated post!"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:167:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:167:in `block (3 levels) in '
13) Babble::TopicsController update_post allows admins to update others' posts
Failure/Error: xhr :post, :update_post, raw: raw, id: topic.id, post_id: topic_post.id
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"update_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6107", :post_id=>"5852", :raw=>"Here is an updated post!"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:183:in `block (3 levels) in '
14) Babble::TopicsController destroy_post allows admins to delete others' posts
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :destroy_post, id: topic.id, post_id: target_post.id }.to change { topic.posts.count }.by(-1)
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"destroy_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6111", :post_id=>"5858"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:157:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:157:in `block (3 levels) in '
15) Babble::TopicsController destroy_post deletes an existing post
Failure/Error: expect { xhr :post, :destroy_post, id: topic.id, post_id: target_post.id }.to_not change { topic.posts.count }
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"destroy_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6113", :post_id=>"5861"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:141:in `block (4 levels) in '
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:141:in `block (3 levels) in '
16) Babble::TopicsController destroy_post does not allow deleting of posts the user can't delete
Failure/Error: xhr :post, :destroy_post, id: topic.id, post_id: another_post.id
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"destroy_post", :controller=>"babble/topics", :id=>"6115", :post_id=>"5863"}
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:149:in `block (3 levels) in '
17) Babble::TopicsController update does not allow non-admins to update topics
Failure/Error: expect(Babble::Topic.find(id: topic.id).title).to_not eq chat_params[:title]
NoMethodError:
undefined method `find' for Babble::Topic:Class
Did you mean? find_by
# ./plugins/babble/spec/controllers/topics_controller_spec.rb:301:in `block (3 levels) in '
Finished in 21.43 seconds (files took 7.29 seconds to load)
43 examples, 17 failures
```
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/9 "2017-02-20T03:17:12Z")
Yes that is the right way to run the specs. The routes are not matching because the plugin isn’t being loaded in test so the routes are not drawn.
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### Author:  [@jafeth.diazc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jafeth.diazc)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/10 "2017-02-20T03:58:08Z")
I understand. However, I run the specs that way and I still get the same errors. Also, as you can see in the output, the failing examples are 17 (that all perform post requests, by the way) from a total of 43, so there are some other routes that are matching, the specs for `show` or `create` for example.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-rspec-get-problems/57256/11 "2017-02-20T04:43:25Z")
Thank you so much for posting `LOAD_PLUGINS=1`
l wouldn’t have guessed that on my own.
I tried every possible syntax variation that I could find or think of and kept getting FAILs. Very frustrating.
On a positive note, the experience did spur me on to spend more time with documentation than l normally would have otherwise. 😃