Set Rspec default GET request format to JSON

Question

I am doing functional tests for my controllers with Rspec. I have set my default response format in my router to JSON, so every request without a suffix will return JSON.

Answer 1

Why don't RSpec's methods, "get", "post", "put", "delete" work in a controller spec in a gem (or outside Rails)?

Based off this question, you could try redefining process() in ActionController::TestCase from https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/32395899d7c97f69b508b7d7f9b7711f28586679/actionpack/lib/action_controller/test_case.rb.

Here is my workaround though.

describe FooController do
    let(:defaults) { {format: :json} }

    context 'GET index' do
        let(:params) { defaults }
        before :each do
            get :index, params
        end

        # ...
    end

    context 'POST create' do
        let(:params) { defaults.merge({ name: 'bar' }) }
        before :each do
            post :create, params
        end

        # ...
    end
end