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Diffstat (limited to 'actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions.rb index 53d53af400..e46e868ff5 100644 --- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions.rb +++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions.rb @@ -14,10 +14,14 @@ module Test #:nodoc: # # These collections can be used just like any other hash: # - # assert_not_nil assigns[:person] # makes sure that a @person instance variable was set + # assert_not_nil assigns(:person) # makes sure that a @person instance variable was set # assert_equal "Dave", cookies[:name] # makes sure that a cookie called :name was set as "Dave" # assert flash.empty? # makes sure that there's nothing in the flash # + # For historic reasons, the assigns hash uses string-based keys. So assigns[:person] won't work, but assigns["person"] will. To + # appease our yearning for symbols, though, an alternative accessor has been deviced using a method call instead of index referencing. + # So assigns(:person) will work just like assigns["person"], but again, assigns[:person] will not work. + # # On top of the collections, you have the complete url that a given action redirected to available in redirect_to_url. # # For redirects within the same controller, you can even call follow_redirect and the redirect will be follow triggering another |