Re: Help needed using assigns() functionality in functional test

I think you want this instead:

assert_equal "howdy", assigns(:string_segment)

Lance

On 1/20/06, Keith Lancaster < klancaster1957-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to create a functional test where the controller action (for
now, anyway) breaks apart a string and populates intermediate variables
with the results. I want to check the intermediate vars in my test, so I
tried the following

(in the controller)

def string_action
  # do some processing, etc.
  @string_segment = "howdy"
end

(in the unit test)
def test_the_string_doohicky
  post :string_action, ... some params here, etc.
  assert_equal "howdy", assigns["string_segment"]
end

The assigns[] always comes up nil, so I must be missing something here.
Any pointers?

TIA,
Keith

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