New Controller - No Route Matches update, edit, show or destroy - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm having some difficulty getting all the RESTful routes to be setup correctly. I've taken the simplest of simple steps in my app so far.
Create new rails app
Create new controller with RESTful actions
Add resources to routes.rb
And yet 4 out of my 7 actions fail the default tests. Can anyone please explain why?
rails generate controller Employees new create update edit destroy index show
And here's the corresponding controller, employees_controller.rb
class EmployeesController < ApplicationController
def new
end
def create
end
def update
end
def edit
end
def destroy
end
def index
end
def show
end
end
Now I add the resources to routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
resources :employees
end
All the routes seem to be there, based on the output of rake routes
Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action
employees GET /employees(.:format) employees#index
POST /employees(.:format) employees#create
new_employee GET /employees/new(.:format) employees#new
edit_employee GET /employees/:id/edit(.:format) employees#edit
employee GET /employees/:id(.:format) employees#show
PATCH /employees/:id(.:format) employees#update
PUT /employees/:id(.:format) employees#update
DELETE /employees/:id(.:format) employees#destroy
But now when I run the default tests, I get 4 errors:
# Running:
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Finished in 0.267712s, 26.1475 runs/s, 11.2061 assertions/s.
1) Error:
EmployeesControllerTest#test_should_get_update:
ActionController::UrlGenerationError: No route matches {:action=>"update", :controller=>"employees"}
test/controllers/employees_controller_test.rb:15:in `block in <class:EmployeesControllerTest>'
2) Error:
EmployeesControllerTest#test_should_get_destroy:
ActionController::UrlGenerationError: No route matches {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"employees"}
test/controllers/employees_controller_test.rb:25:in `block in <class:EmployeesControllerTest>'
3) Error:
EmployeesControllerTest#test_should_get_show:
ActionController::UrlGenerationError: No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"employees"}
test/controllers/employees_controller_test.rb:35:in `block in <class:EmployeesControllerTest>'
4) Error:
EmployeesControllerTest#test_should_get_edit:
ActionController::UrlGenerationError: No route matches {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"employees"}
test/controllers/employees_controller_test.rb:20:in `block in <class:EmployeesControllerTest>'
7 runs, 3 assertions, 0 failures, 4 errors, 0 skips
Lastly, here is the contents of employees_controller_test.rb. As I said, these are the default tests auto-created by Rails upon generation of the controller.
require 'test_helper'
class EmployeesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
test "should get new" do
get :new
assert_response :success
end
test "should get create" do
get :create
assert_response :success
end
test "should get update" do
get :update
assert_response :success
end
test "should get edit" do
get :edit
assert_response :success
end
test "should get destroy" do
get :destroy
assert_response :success
end
test "should get index" do
get :index
assert_response :success
end
test "should get show" do
get :show
assert_response :success
end
end

Answer 1

according to dimakura's answer you have to change some routes in your test
the update method is a put (or a patch for partial changes in rails4)
test "should get update" do
put :update
assert_response :success
end
and for your edit, delete and show routes, the id is missing
test "should get edit" do
get :edit, id: 2
assert_response :success
end

Answer 2

Your controller test probably looks like:
class EmployeesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
test "should get create" do
get :create
assert_response :success
end
# other tests not shown
end
You should change it to this:
class EmployeesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
test "should get create" do
post :create
assert_response :success
end
# other tests should be changed accordingly
end
Use patch or put method for update, and delete for delete actions.