Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone else came across this problem. I'm going through Jeffrey's book on testing in Laravel and I'm on the chapter which explains how to test controllers.

When I follow the examples from the book - I get the message:

Failed asserting that Illuminate\Http\Response Object (...) is an instance of class "Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse".

My test is as follow:

public function testStoreFails()
    {

        $input = ['title' => ''];

        $this->mock
                ->shouldReceive('create')
                ->once()
                ->with($input);

        $this->app->instance('Post', $this->mock);

        $this->post('posts', $input);

        $this->assertRedirectedToRoute('posts.create');

        $this->assertSessionHasErrors(['title']);

    }

And the method in the controller:

public function create()
	{

		$input = Input::all();

		$validator = Validator::make($input, ['title' => 'required']);

		if ($validator->fails()) {

			return Redirect::route('posts.create')
					->withInput()
					->withErrors($validator->messages());

		}

		$this->post->create($input);

		return Redirect::route('posts.index')
				->with('flash', 'Your post has been created!');

	}

From what I can see the AssertionsTrait::assertRedirectedTo checks for instance of 'Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse'

/**
	 * Assert whether the client was redirected to a given URI.
	 *
	 * @param  string  $uri
	 * @param  array   $with
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function assertRedirectedTo($uri, $with = array())
	{
		$response = $this->client->getResponse();

		$this->assertInstanceOf('Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse', $response);

		$this->assertEquals($this->app['url']->to($uri), $response->headers->get('Location'));

		$this->assertSessionHasAll($with);
	}

	/**
	 * Assert whether the client was redirected to a given route.
	 *
	 * @param  string  $name
	 * @param  array   $parameters
	 * @param  array   $with
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function assertRedirectedToRoute($name, $parameters = array(), $with = array())
	{
		$this->assertRedirectedTo($this->app['url']->route($name, $parameters), $with);
	}

which should work just fine as the Redirect facade resolves to the 'Illuminate\Routing\Redirector' and its route() method calls createRedirect(), which returns the instance of the 'Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse' - so not quite sure what's causing it.

##UPDATE:

Just checked the code again and it looks like the problem is within AssertionsTrait::assertRedirectedTo() method. The call to $this->client->getResponse() returns instance of Illuminate\Http\Response instead of Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse - hence the $this->assertInstanceOf('Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse', $response) call fails. But I'm still not sure why - I'm extending the TestCase which is suppose to take care of all environment setup etc. Any idea?