Routes that specify a custom controller name aren't found in functional tests

Adding the following to routes.rb changes the problem slightly:

resources :custom_posts

Now, the errors about unrecognized paths go away, but we're left with the redirect assertions not being happy:

1) Failure:
test_should_create_post(CustomPostsControllerTest) [test/functional/custom_posts_controller_test.rb:24]:
Expected response to be a redirect to http://test.host/posts/980190963 but was a redirect to http://test.host/custom_posts/980190963

2) Failure: test_should_update_post(CustomPostsControllerTest) [test/functional/custom_posts_controller_test.rb:39]:
Expected response to be a redirect to http://test.host/posts/980190962 but was a redirect to http://test.host/custom_posts/980190962

I'm no expert on the source, but in doing some piecing together of the problem, it looks the fundamental issue is that each test asks its @controller to build a URI for the request — that's all well and good except it doesn't appear that the controller is smart enough to know how access to it has been specified in routes.rb. This problem looks pretty deep rooted, and my familiarity with the rails source isn't in-depth to know beyond a doubt that this is the case.

Adding the controller to routes.rb seems to make the routing mechanisms happy, but then since the tests are using the path convenience methods based on the desired route (in this example, "resources :posts, :controller => "CustomPosts") as opposed to the paths based on "resources :custom_posts" the assertions aren't happy.

Have you tried giving :controller => "custom_posts" instead?

Success! Looks like specifying

:controller => "custom_posts"

works great. Is the the proper way to specify this in routes.rb? It seemed that "CustomPosts" worked well for the router, just not the tests.

Also, and I apologize in advance for glomming on to this, but I've noticed in my views that I now have to use the "posts_path(@post)" method for specifying things like the following

<% @posts.each do |post| %>

<td><%= post.title %></td>
<td><%= post.body %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Show', post_path(post) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_post_path(post) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', post_path(post), :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %></td>

This appears to be because each post object only knows how to create paths that use "custom_post" as the controller. Is there any way to tell the controller to use just "post" in the URIs it creates (which is what is specified in routes.rb)? That way I can just leave this as:

<% @posts.each do |post| %>

<td><%= post.title %></td>
<td><%= post.body %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Show', post %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_post_path(post) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', post, :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %></td>