What "assigns"

Question

I am currently in the study of rubies on rails and in the rspek test environment can anyone tell me what rspec is prescribed in this test

describe "GET index" do it "assigns all mymodel as @mymodel" do mymodel = Factory(:mymodel) get :index assigns(:mymodels).should eq([mymodel]) end end 

Answer 1

assigns simply checks the value of the instance variables set in your controller.

Here he checks @mymodels .