Specifying Content Type in rspec

Question

I\'m trying to build an rspec test that sends JSON (or XML) via POST. However, I can\'t seem to actually get it working:

    json = {.... data ....}.to_json
         


        

Answer 1

A slightly more elegant test is to use the header helper:

header "HTTP_ACCEPT", "application/json"
json = {.... data ....}.to_json
post '/model1.json', json

Now this does exactly the same thing as setting @env; it's just a bit prettier.