Controller specs: response.should == 'string'

[pschuegr]

Seems to explode. Memory usage goes up to > 8GB and the test does not return.

it "should fail to return a list of questions" do
  get :index, {}, :controller => "api/questions"
  response.should == 'hi'
  response.should be_success
  result = JSON.parse(response.body)
  result['success'].should == false
end

Of course, this is not really a legitimate test, I intended to use

response.body.should == 'hi'

But I have no idea what's happening.

[alindeman]

This is a yucky issue, agreed.

tldr: You want to assert on response.body, not response (which is a Rack::Response, not a String).

The underlying issue is in Rack. See rack/rack#419 and previous rspec issues rspec/rspec-expectations#166 and #601

[raggi]

This is now fixed on the rack side, in master.

[pschuegr]

Thanks for the update, raggi.