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Original Post: No need to check response when testing redirects
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Early on in my exploration of Rails, I got into the habit of testing that the response code of an action indicated a redirect. It turns out that this check is entirely unnecessary since assert_redirected_to makes an identical check:
def assert_redirected_to(options = {}, message=nil)
clean_backtrace do
assert_response(:redirect, message)
...
end
end
This is how one of my functional tests might have looked [...]
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