ruby on rails - Set Rspec default GET request format to JSON

Question

I am doing functional tests for my controllers with Rspec. I have set my default response format in my router to JSON, so every request without a suffix will return JSON.

Now in rspec, i get an error (406) when i try

get :index

I need to do

get :index, :format => :json

Now because i am primarily supporting JSON with my API, it is very redundant having to specify the JSON format for every request.

Can i somehow set it to default for all my GET requests? (or all requests)

Answer 1

before :each do
  request.env["HTTP_ACCEPT"] = 'application/json'
end