Quick Tip: Asserting response redirects in a MonoRail controller test

7 September, 2007. It was a Friday.

Reading this post by Sean reminded me of when I first started using the trunk’s BaseControllerTest. One nifty little property on the base test controller’s mock Response object is RedirectedTo. So you can do something like this:

       1: // some call on the controller that should do the redirect
<pre style="border-style: none;margin: 0em;padding: 0px;overflow: visible;font-size: 8pt;width: 100%;color: black;line-height: 12pt;font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace;background-color: #f4f4f4"><span style="color: #606060">   2:</span> Assert.AreEqual(<span style="color: #006080">"/productSearch/performSearch.rails"</span>, Response.RedirectedTo);</pre>

In previous MonoRail projects, I used the very nice base class from the guys at Eleutian and it worked great. But I’ve been using the trunk’s BaseControllerTest exclusively on my current project since it started a few months ago and it rocks as well. Nice to have it “out of the box” now.

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