RSpec authorization testing with raise_error not working

Question

I'm trying to test how a not logged in user behaves like this

  describe "not logged in user" do
   user_no_rights

    it "can't access action index" do
      expect(get :index).to raise_error(CanCan::AccessDenied)
    end
  end

The output when i run rspec

  Failure/Error: expect(get :index).to raise_error("CanCan::AccessDenied:You are not authorized to access this page.")
     CanCan::AccessDenied:
       You are not authorized to access this page.

So it looks like the correct execption is raised, but why is the spec not passing?

Appressed

In the case of raising an error expect might need to be passed a block: expect{ get :index }.to raise_error(CanCan::AccessDenied). – Illimani

Answer 1

I've changed my spec to:

 describe "not logged in user" do
   user_no_rights

    it "can't access action index" do
      expect{get :index}.to raise_error(CanCan::AccessDenied)
    end
 end

and it works. Kudos to Thomas! :-)

Appressed