How to set request headers in rspec request spec?

Question

In the controller spec, I can set http accept header like this:

request.accept = \"application/json\"

but in the request spec, \"request\"

Answer 1

You should be able to specify HTTP headers as the third argument to your get() method as described here:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/RequestHelpers.html#method-i-get

and here

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Integration/Session.html#method-i-process

So, you can try something like this:

get '/my/path', nil, {'HTTP_ACCEPT' => "application/json"}