Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap

Testing Controllers That Use Angular-Resource

Before Chapter 6, ​Test This Fancy New Code​, our Angular code was using $http to make Ajax calls. Our tests used $httpBackend to mock out the HTTP interactions between our controller and the server. Will that still work, now that we are using angular-resource?

The short answer is yes. Because angular-resource is using $http under the covers, the same techniques apply. In fact, you can use this information to refactor CustomerSearchController to use angular-resource.

Because angular-resource requires us to understand promises, let’s walk through a basic test of the CustomerCreditCardController, so it’s clear how promises interact with our tests.

First, we’ll set up our tests in the usual way: ...