Ruby on Rails

I am writing a few low level tests for my controllers to verify security. New to rspec and am seeing some unexpected activity:

If I run this spec:

  describe "GET index" do
    it "does not load for guest role" do
      get :new
      flash[:notice].should match RESTRICTED_PAGE_NOTICE
      response.should redirect_to(login_path)
    end

Which hits

class PracticesController < ApplicationController

  def index
    @practices = Practice.all

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
    end
  end

end

But the controller also inherits from the application controller which:

class ApplicationController
       ...
        when 'practices'
          flash[:notice] = RESTRICTED_PAGE_NOTICE
          redirect_to login_path if action_name != 'new' && action_name != 'create'
end

I have verified the redirect and message in a browser, so this code is executing as expected in 'reality'.


Then why do I get this error:

  1) PracticesController GET index does not load for guest role
     Failure/Error: response.should redirect_to(login_path)
     Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <200>.
     Expected block to return true value.


It is true, if the controller is isolated and not inheriting from the app controller, it would be a 200. But with the app controller it should redirect before it ever hits the method.

The line in the app controller "flash[:notice] = RESTRICTED_PAGE_NOTICE" clearly gets evaluated as the line in the spec "flash[:notice].should match RESTRICTED_PAGE_NOTICE" passes, *BUT* this line in the app controller "redirect_to login_path if action_name != 'new' && action_name != 'create'" does not get evaluated as rspec says I have a 200 response? I am really confused and don't like what feels to be a weird paradox....

Can anyone enlighten me?
 
Thanks,

David

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