Route with symbol for default format cannot match

[brianhempel]

In Rails 4, the default format route parameter may have been set to a symbol, but because shoulda stringifies the expected parameters given, it is impossible to match a route with a default format set to a symbol.

namespace :api, defaults: {format: :json} do
  resources :user
end

Try to match it and you will get an unhelpful error, like:

       <{"format"=>"json",
        "action"=>"show",
        "controller"=>"api/users"}> expected but was
       <{"format"=>:json,
        "action"=>"show",
        "controller"=>"api/users"}>

Even crazier, when you switch from back and forth from a symbol to a string in your tests, the error message alternates between the first and the second hash containing the symbol value.

A temporary fix is to use the RSpec route_to matcher, which does not stringify the values.

[maurogeorge]

@mcmire I think we can close this since the #693 was merged. 😄

[mcmire]

Is this issue really a year old? 😬

Closed.