Does rspec not invoke my custom action in the namespace'd rails 3 controller?

Question

I have a problem with testing the rails 3 admin controller. It looks like the controller action is not even being called. I tested this, indicating that the action is clearly throwing an exception, and the test does not show this fact.

with the following code, my test passes. the exception should cause the test to fail if my_custom_action is actually called.

Controllers / admin / things_controller.rb

class Admin::ThingsController < Admin::AdminController
  def my_custom_action
    raise 'this should be bad'
  end
end

specifications / controllers / admin / things_controller_spec.rb

describe Admin::ThingsController do
  it "shouldn't work!" do
    post :my_custom_action
  end
end 

config / routes.rb

namespace :admin do
  resources :things do
    post :my_custom_action, :on => :collection
  end
end

whenever I delete a route, the test fails with the error "there is no corresponding route", so I'm rather confused by why it seems that when the route is determined, the action is not called

namespace'd rspec?

Answer 1

, (), rspec, ( 200 ok ):

post :something_wrong
response.should be_ok