Signup URI

With the code from Section 5.4.1, we already have a working page for new users at /users/new, but recall from Table 5.1 that we want the URI to be /signup instead. As in Section 5.3, we’ll first write some integration tests, which we’ll now generate:

Then, following the model of the static pages spec in Listing 5.27, we’ll fill in the user pages test with code to test for the contents of the h1 and title tags, as seen in Listing 5.31.  

Listing 5.31 The initial spec for users, with a test for the signup page.
spec/requests/user_pages_spec.rb

We can run these tests using the rspec command as usual:

It’s worth noting that we can also run all therequest specs by passing the whole directory instead of just one file:

Based on this pattern, you may be able to guess how to run all the specs:

For completeness, we’ll usually use this method to run the tests through the rest of the tutorial. By the way, it’s worth noting (since you may see other people use it) that you can also run the test suite using the spec Rake task:  

                      (In fact, you can just type rake by itself; the default behavior of rake is to run the test suite.)  

By construction, the Users controller already has a new action, so to get the test to pass all we need is the right route and the right view content. We’ll follow the examples from Listing 5.21 and add a match ’/signup’ rule for the signup URI (Listing 5.32).