在rspec中命名自定义路由

Question

I'm trying to write a request spec for a custom action on one of my controllers.

My routes.rb is like this:

controller :profile, :path => 'profile' do
  match 'view_friends/:circle_id', :to => :view_friends, :via => [:get], :as => 'view_friends'
end
resources :profile

I want to visit this action, and was hoping that as I can use

visit profile_path
visit new_profile_path 
etc

That I could do

visit view_friends_profile_path 

However this gives me the "error undefined local variable or method "

I can get the desired behavior by writing

visit profile_path.to_s + '/view_friends/' + circle.id.to_s

But that is horrible. What am I missing to be able to name a custom action?

edit:

Relevant output from rake routes

   view_friends GET      (/:locale)/profile/view_friends/:circle_id(.:format)       {:controller=>"profile", :action=>"view_friends"}

Answer 1

Firstly I'm a bit confused. Usually in rails when you make a controller, the controller has a plural name. For instance if your model name is Profile , then you would have a ProfilesController . The way you are writing your question implies that your controller is named ProfileController . Seems kind of unusual, so if you could clarify that would be helpful. That being said, try this:

# in routes.rb
resources :profile do
  member do
    match 'view_friends/:circle_id' => :view_friends, :via => :get, :as => 'view_friends'
  end
end

Should produce what you want. You can access it now by doing this:

view_friends_profile_path(profile_id, circle_id)