From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T10:10:50+09:00
Subject: Re: question about rspec assigns

On 11/14/06, Daniel Higginbotham <daniel@flyingmachinestudios.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm using rspec for a Rails project and keep seeing the "assigns" method in
> the "writing specs" portion of the documentation, yet I don't see "assigns"
> in the rdoc and I can't seem to find an explicit definition what it does.
> Would someone be able to tell me what exactly "assigns" does?
>

Assigns is a feature RSpec borrows from the regular Rails test/unit helpers.
In a controller spec, assigns[:blah] points at the @blah instance variable.
Useful for setting expectations on what the controller will do with
your request.

Also, this is probably better suited for the RSpec mailing list.