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Ken Obara
Ken Obara

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Failure/Error: render template: 'path/to/template'

#rails #testing

My Rails application works for API. When I tested the codes with Rspec, I got the following error.

$ bundle exec rspec
...
Failure/Error: render template: 'path/to/template'
...
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Solutions

We can fix this problem by setting the request header for JSON. There are some solutions.

If we want to set it for each testing code, we can use format: :json

RSpec.describe MyController, type: :controller do
  it 'my test' do
    get :index, format: :json
    expect(response).to have_http_status(:ok)
  end
end
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If we want to set it for all testing codes at once, we can change config settings.

# spec/rails_helper.rb or spec/spec_helper.rb
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.before(:each, type: :controller) do
    request.env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = 'application/json'
    request.env['HTTP_ACCEPT'] = 'application/json'
  end

  config.before(:each, type: :request) do
    if defined?(headers)
      headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
      headers['Accept'] = 'application/json'
    end
  end
end
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