jb renders an empty string in rspec controller test in both Rails4 and Rails5

[gfx]

It sometimes renders an empty string with status 200, or sometimes just raises 404. The app below reproduces the former, though.

The demo is based on Rails5 but I have found this problem on my Rails4 app.

How to reproduce it

https://github.com/gfx/test_jb (Rails5)

1. git clone the repo
2. bundle install
3. bundle exec rspec

will shows:

$ bundle exec rspec
F

Failures:

  1) FoosController#index should eq "[]"
     Failure/Error: expect(response.body).to eq("[]")

       expected: "[]"
            got: ""

       (compared using ==)
     # ./spec/controllers/foos_controller_spec.rb:8:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

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Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/controllers/foos_controller_spec.rb:5 # FoosController#index should eq "[]"

curl http://localhost:3000/foos.json with rails server does return [] as expected.

[dks17]

@gfx hello Please check my comment in #18. Try to set rspec render_views setting to true:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.render_views = true
end