POST: testing rails: controller tests are functional tests

[tamouse]

They are not integration tests, those are something else.

From the rails guide on testing:

8 Functional Tests for Your Controllers

In Rails, testing the various actions of a controller is a form of writing functional tests. Remember your controllers handle the incoming web requests to your application and eventually respond with a rendered view. When writing functional tests, you are testing how your actions handle the requests and the expected result or response, in some cases an HTML view.

8.1 What to include in your Functional Tests

You should test for things such as:

• was the web request successful?
• was the user redirected to the right page?
• was the user successfully authenticated?
• was the appropriate message displayed to the user in the view?
• was the correct information displayed in the response?