`expect(response).to_eq('something') hangs if it's a redirect

[nathanl]

In my tests, expect(response).to_eq('something') was hanging. I determined that this only happens when the response is a redirect. expect(response).to be_ok fails as expected in this case.

I'm guessing that to_eq is trying to look at the response body, and since a redirect doesn't have one, it hangs? Could it be patched to fail instead, saying that it expected 'something' and got nil?

[myronmarston]

I believe this is a duplicate of #613, which is caused by rack/rack#419. It's been fixed in rack but I don't think there's a rack release with it yet.

For now, use something like expect(response.body).to eq('something').

[alindeman]

Thanks for the report! 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

[nathanl]

Good to know. Thanks for the quick response!