Route not resolving properly

It's very easy to repeat this bug, and it only seems to effect the integration test.

step to reproduce.

$ rails appname

then

$ script/generate scaffold Book title:string description:text

run the migration

$ rake db:migrate

make a integration test

$ script/generate integration_test Book

Then add the following to the test.

  def test_truth
    id = books(:one).id
    post "/books/#{id}", :book => { :title => 'hello'}
    assert_response :success
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I don't believe this is a bug in Rails. The routing code is resolving to the only route that makes sense for a POST. But in a RESTful application, POSTs are only used for creating resources, which don't have an ID in the route. You'll need to use PUT in your test, rather than a POST.

Thanks for your insight Mike, I have been tearing my hair out trying to work out why this wasn't working. It just stems from my not understanding how the RESTful routes work.

For future reference where is the best place to ask questions like this?

elsif ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS[:database_manager] == CGI::Session::CookieStore && session.respond_to?(:dbman) && session.dbman.respond_to?(:generate_digest)

Couldn't you just do:

  if ActionController::Base.session_store == CGI::Session::CookieStore

Or is there a case where we're using the cookie store and don't have dbman respond_to

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