The Way of the Web Tester

HTTP PUT

HTTP PUT (some frameworks like Rails use a similar verb called PATCH) is similar to POST. Only here, instead of creating a brand-new permit, we are going to update an existing one.

If we go with a similar game plan to testing PUT as we did with POST, we can write a similar-looking test that looks something like this:

test 'HTTP PUT' do
  # search for permit by new attribute
  permit = Permit.find_by_location('Medicine Hat')

  # verify it doesn't exist
  assert_nil permit

  # update it
  put permit_path(@permit), permit: {location: 'Medicine Hat'}

  # search for it again
  permit = Permit.find_by_location(