Setting http headers RSpec 2.4 / Rails 3

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gdelfino picture gdelfino · Feb 9, 2011 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I am getting started with RSpec. I have a new rails 3 app which uses the HTTP_ACCEPT_HEADER or the request 2 letter subdomain to set the application language and redirect accordingly. I am successfully testing my redirection code using Cucumber.

Now I want to write my controller specs and I need to set the request subdomain before my test.

In my cucumber steps, I can specify:

header 'HTTP_HOST', 'es.mysite.local'
visit '/'

But when I try to do this in a spec file 

header 'HTTP_HOST', 'es.mysite.local'
get 'index'

I get this error:

Failure/Error: header 'HTTP_HOST', "es.mysite.local"
 LoadError:
   no such file to load -- action_controller/integration

Any clue on how to solve this?

Answer

zetetic picture zetetic · Feb 9, 2011

Try this:

request.env['HTTP_HOST'] = 'es.mysite.local'
get 'index'

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