How to test for redirect in capybara?

[justin808]

Is this possibly a capybara issue?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18030507/how-to-verify-301-status-code-using-capybara-webkit

Capybara-Webkit (and poltergeist) works fine to confirm a status code of 200 or 404, but when I do a redirect (301), I get back a status code of 200.

So this always fails

expect(page.status_code).to eq(301)

I can verify that the right page is shown with the redirect:

expect(page.current_url).to eq(expected_uri)

Any advice? Skip the check on the 301 status?

[twalpole]

Capybara is for simulating user experience, since a user never sees a 301 I wouldnt expect to test that with Capybara. You'll get more complete answers by positing to the mailing list mentioned in the README, but if you really need to verify a 301 is sent (instead of a 302 or something) rather than just the result of the url changing then you probably just need a standard controller spec and dont involve capybara at all - https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/controller-specs