I know this was written about a year ago a lot has changed since then, but nowadays Cucumber provides an excellent way to ensure all of the pieces are integrated nicely, and you can leave your controller specs in isolation without worrying about not having some level of integration. This isn’t to say that you may not find a time where integrate_views is useful, but Cucumber gives you more meaningful integration than controller specs rendering through to views.

Thanks for sharing Steve, sorry I’m late to the part.

There are some excellent resource on the net that can do a far better job than I can. I suggest you look at the examples on the RSpec site (http://rspec.info/examples.html), or download the Peepcode screencast on RSpec (http://peepcode.com/products/rspec-basics).

Steve

describe StoriesController,”editing a story” do

integrate_views

before(:each) do
@story = model_factory.story_with_components[:story]
get ‘edit’, :project_id => @story.project.id, :id => @story.id
end

it “should load story” do
assigns[:story].should == @story
end

it “should render edit template” do
response.should render_template(‘edit’)
end

end