Provides access to the params hash that will be available within the view:

      params[:foo] = 'bar'

Delegates to ActionView::Base#render, so see documentation on that for more info.

The only addition is that you can call render with no arguments, and RSpec will pass the top level description to render:

  describe "widgets/new.html.erb" do
    it "shows all the widgets" do
      render # => view.render(:file => "widgets/new.html.erb")
      ...
    end
  end

Deprecated. Use rendered instead.

Deprecated. Use view instead.

The instance of ActionView::Base that is used to render the template. Use this before the render call to stub any methods you want to stub on the view:

  describe "widgets/new.html.erb" do
    it "shows all the widgets" do
      view.stub(:foo) { "foo" }
      render
      ...
    end
  end