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December 27th, 2006, 02:31 AM

CLEM_C_ROCK

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Post variable repost itself

Hello,

I've encountered a strange problem w/ a find method in a big project I'm working on. One thing I must admit is I'm pretty new to ruby and coming from a PHP background.

Anyway here's the find method:

Code:

  def find
      if params.has_key? :space #*new* if request.post? #*old*
         unless params[:space][:title].empty?
            @space_pages, @spaces = paginate :space, :per_page => 30, :conditions => "title like '%#{params[:space][:title].gsub(/'+/, "\\\\'") }%'", :order => 'title asc'
         
            if @spaces.size == 0
                flash[:notice] = 'Space not found'
            else
                flash[:notice] = 'Space 
                redirect_to :action => 'index'
         end
       end
     end
  end

Here's the html code:
<input id="space_title" name="space[title]" size="30" type="text" />

Now the strange this w/ this function is I can type say: "test" and no record will be found and the text box will be empty. If I hit the submit button again the params[:space][:title] variable will still hold the value of 'test'.

Why is the params[:space][:title] holding the value of the text input box when there's nothing in it?

Also on a final note - I'm also trying to write a test for this method.
This method reports no errors or failures but seems to not be the most thorough test:

Code:

  def test_find 
    post :find, :context => 'admin'
    assert_response :success
  end

Thanks for any help!

Last edited by CLEM_C_ROCK : December 27th, 2006 at 11:51 AM.

December 27th, 2006, 06:41 PM

CLEM_C_ROCK

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More on that test part:

so I have this record in my spaces.yml:

first_space:
id: 1
title: My first space
subdomain: first-space
domain: functionalalcoholism.org
home_page_id: 57
user_id: 1
owner_id: 1
created_at: 2005-05-21 00:00:00
updated_at: 2005-05-21 00:00:00
wikiwords_enabled: 1
country_code: US
timezone_identifier: US/Eastern

And here's my test:

Code:

  def test_find
     post :find, :space => {:title => 'My first space'}, :context => 'admin'
     assert_response :success
     assert_not_nil assigns(:spaces)
     assert_not_nil assigns(:space_pages)
     assert_equal 1, assigns(:spaces).size  #1 because there's only one record
     assert_nil flash[:error]
  end

But I now get a "Expected response to be a <:success>, but was <302>" Error

Quote:

Originally Posted by CLEM_C_ROCK

Code:

  def find
      if params.has_key? :space #*new* if request.post? #*old*
         unless params[:space][:title].empty?
            @space_pages, @spaces = paginate :space, :per_page => 30, :conditions => "title like '%#{params[:space][:title].gsub(/'+/, "\\\\'") }%'", :order => 'title asc'
         
            if @spaces.size == 0
                flash[:notice] = 'Space not found'
            else
                flash[:notice] = 'Space 
                redirect_to :action => 'index'
         end
       end
     end
  end

Code:

  def test_find 
    post :find, :context => 'admin'
    assert_response :success
  end

Thanks for any help!

December 28th, 2006, 02:28 AM

CLEM_C_ROCK

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Ok - progress w/ the test - had to change this little section ( assert_response :redirect to assert_response :redirect) and it works like a charm:

Code:

  def test_find
     post :find, :space => {:title => 'My first space'}, :context => 'admin'
     assert_response :redirect
     assert_not_nil assigns(:spaces)
     assert_not_nil assigns(:space_pages)
     assert_equal 1, assigns(:spaces).size
     assert_nil flash[:error]
  end

Now if I could only figure out that double post part I would be the happiest of campers!

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