Rspec tests not finding matching routes - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm getting unexpected errors when running some Rspec tests. They are
1) PeopleController redirects when loading root should redirect to the splash page
Failure/Error: get '/'
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"/", :controller=>"people"}
...
2) PeopleController redirects when loading /people/show should redirect to the base person path
Failure/Error: get '/show' #/show
ActionController::UrlGenerationError:
No route matches {:action=>"/show", :controller=>"people"}
I don't understand why Rspec can't find the routes.
From the controller, people_controller.rb:
class PeopleController < ApplicationController
...
def show
redirect_to people_path
end
def index
#people = Person.all
end
...
From the Rspec file people_controller_spec.rb:
describe PeopleController do
describe "redirects" do
context "when loading root" do
it "should redirect to the temp page" do
get '/'
last_response.should be_redirect
follow_redirect!
last_request.url.should include('/temp')
end
end
context "when loading /people/show" do
it "should redirect to the base people path" do
get '/people/show'
last_response.should be_redirect
follow_redirect!
last_request.url.should include('/people')
end
end
end
end
And my routes:
$ rake routes
Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action
...
person GET /people/:id(.:format) people#show
...
root GET / redirect(301, /temp)
routes.rb:
Rails.application.routes.draw do
resources :temp
resources :people
# map '/' to be a redirect to '/temp'
root :to => redirect('/temp')
end
What am I missing to get the routes from test to match up? I could see the root test not working because it's not technically handled by the People controller (I tried putting it in as a sanity test and only made myself more confused) but the /show failure really makes no sense to me.

Answer 1

Inside a controller test the method get takes an action argument, not a path. If the resource is a member (as opposed to a collection), you must also specify the id parameter, so:
get :show, id: 1
will call the #show action on an instance of PeopleController, with a params hash including {id: '1'}.
This is described in more detail in the Guide to Testing Rails Applications.