No Backtrace Requests On Demand with Rspec
I have a request specification like this
require 'rails_helper'
describe 'People API' do
describe 'GET /api/v1/people/lookup.json?phone_number=PHONE_NUMBER', :wip do
it 'returns a 200 status code' do
auth_get '/api/v1/people/lookup.json', phone_number: '91900199'
expect(response.status).to eq(200)
end
end
end
and if the specs don't work for some reason, I just get a 500 status code in the response and so I have to check the file log/test.log
to see what went wrong, it's pretty annoying.
Why doesn't rspec show backtrace like in other types of specs?
This is how I run my specs, notice that I include the -b option
$ rspec -b -t wip -f documentation
Run options: include {:wip=>true}
People API
GET /api/v1/people/lookup.json?phone_number=PHONE_NUMBER
returns a 200 status code
Failures:
1) People API GET /api/v1/people/lookup.json?phone_number=PHONE_NUMBER with an empty phone number returns a empty response
Failure/Error: expect(response.status).to eq(200)
expected: 200
got: 500
(compared using ==)
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.0.1/lib/rspec/expectations/fail_with.rb:30:in `fail_with'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.0.1/lib/rspec/expectations/handler.rb:35:in `handle_failure'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.0.1/lib/rspec/expectations/handler.rb:48:in `handle_matcher'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.0.1/lib/rspec/expectations/expectation_target.rb:54:in `to'
# ./spec/requests/api/v1/people_spec.rb:15:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:148:in `instance_exec'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:148:in `block in run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:210:in `call'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:210:in `block (2 levels) in <class:Procsy>'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-rails-3.0.1/lib/rspec/rails/adapters.rb:68:in `block (2 levels) in <module:MinitestLifecycleAdapter>'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:294:in `instance_exec'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:294:in `instance_exec'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/hooks.rb:430:in `block (2 levels) in run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:210:in `call'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:210:in `block (2 levels) in <class:Procsy>'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/hooks.rb:432:in `run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/hooks.rb:485:in `run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:303:in `with_around_example_hooks'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:145:in `run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:494:in `block in run_examples'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:490:in `map'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:490:in `run_examples'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:457:in `run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:458:in `block in run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:458:in `map'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:458:in `run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:458:in `block in run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:458:in `map'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:458:in `run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:112:in `block (2 levels) in run_specs'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:112:in `map'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:112:in `block in run_specs'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:54:in `report'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:108:in `run_specs'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:86:in `run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:70:in `run'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:38:in `invoke'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.0.1/exe/rspec:4:in `<top (required)>'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/bin/rspec:23:in `load'
# /Users/fespinoza/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/bin/rspec:23:in `<main>'
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1 examples, 1 failures
but it does not contain the real reason for error 500
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Your request specifications interact with your full stack, including middleware. When an error occurs inside one of your controller methods, it goes above the stack so the client can return 500 errors. This is what you see in the assertion error.
You might be able to write your own middleware for testing purposes that prints the errors up to stderr
if you really want to.
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