ASP.NET MVC: Mock controller.Url.Action

Question

Urls for menus in my ASP.NET MVC apps are generated from controller/actions. So, they call

controller.Url.Action(action, controller)

Now, h

Answer 1

If you're using Moq (and not MvcContrib's TestControllerBuilder), you can mock out the context, similar to @DarianDimitrov's answer:

var controller = new OrdersController();
var context = new Mock().Object;

controller.Url = new UrlHelper(
    new RequestContext(context, new RouteData()),
    new RouteCollection()
);

This doesn't set the controller.HttpContext property, but it does allow Url.Action to execute (and return an empty string -- no mocking required).