为什么Rails测试环境中的机架env哈希是空的？

Question

In my Rails app, I'm accessing the env hash in one of my controller actions.

Something along the lines of:

def my_before_filter
  env['some.key'] = "Something or other"
end

This works great for my requirements.

If I start my Rails app in test environment, and visit an action like:

# /users in UsersController#index
def index
  puts env.inspect
end

Then the content of the env hash is output to the console as expected.

When I get this action from within an RSPec example, the output is an empty hash?

it 'should get the index action' do
  get :index
end

.....{}.... # rspec output

Why is the env hash empty?

I've built a dummy rails app to show this

Answer 1

use

request.env

instead of just env within the controller code.

eg/

def index
  puts request.env.inspect
end

Hope that helps?

BTW on another note: when working with your github repo you need to delete the public/index.html for your root route to work, when running the server.