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You may want to ask this on Stackoverflow. Then you can provide some more details about your setup.

(If you haven't figured it out already :)

This doesn't work for controller specs :( Any ideas on how to get this working for controller specs?

The answer is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13996259/testing-error-pages-in-rails-with-rspec-capybara

# /config/environments/test.rb
consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions = true

Did you find a good way to do this? For example, using this episode, ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound errors ultimately redirect to the errors/404 view. However, I have the following in one of my tests (Item belongs_to List):

scenario "item cannot be created without a list" do
  visit new_item_path # @list is not created because it's not the proper nested path
  page.should have_content('Not Found')
  page.status_code.should be 404
end

However, the test fails with the following:

Failure/Error: visit new_item_path
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound:
  Couldn't find List without an ID

So the controller is working properly in requiring a list, but the test fails because it doesn't take into account the custom exception handling which should send the user to the 404. Hmm...

Did you find a good way of doing this?

Thanks, @Xavar. I had been using the following:

raise ActionController::RoutingError

But because I wasn't calling .new('Not Found') on it, I was getting a 500 (missing arguments) instead of the expected 404. So as a lesson, you can use either of the following to trigger a 404:

raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
# or
raise ActionController::RoutingError.new(:not_found)

I'm sure this is simple, but I can't find a way to manually send someone to a 404 (using the middleware approach). For example, I want to "hide" private widgets if the widget author is not the current user:

class ThingsController < ApplicationController
  def show
    @thing = Thing.find(:id)
    if @thing.user != current_user && @thing.is_private?
      # What do I put here to fake a 404?
    end
  end
end

I tried render text: "Not found", status: 404 but that does exactly that, just renders the text instead of handling it through the errors controller. I also tried render status: 404, but that still shows the record (albeit with a 404 status in the web inspector).

Same thing happened to me when watching this and Episode #343.

Hey Adam, I just ran into this as well. Were you able to find the reason or a solution? Thanks.