calling specific url in Rspec in integration test - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I'm trying to do the following in rspec (know that I shouldn't have hardcoded value) in an integration test:
get '/api/get-other-items?id=5109'
The closest I could find was: call a specific url with rspec but it selects only a single item. I have tried the following:
get :controller => 'api', :action => 'get-other-items', :id => '5109'
get 'api/get-other-items', :id => '5109'
These are giving me a bad argument(expected URI object or URI string)
If I run as
get get_other_items, :id => '5109' q
I get
undefined local variable or method `get_other_items' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x007f938fd65590>
but the route does exist:
Mon Jan 23$ rake routes | grep get_other_items
get_other_items /api/get-other-items(.:format) {:controller=>"api", :action=>"get_other_items"}
How would I perform this simple get?
thx
update for answer 1 comment
here's the rspec code in question:
it "testing getting other items for menu item" do
get get_other_items_path(:id => '5109')
JSON.parse(response.body)
puts response.body
Mon Jan 23$ rspec requests/get_other_items_spec.rb
F
Failures:
1) GetOtherItems testing getting other items for menu item
Failure/Error: JSON.parse(response.body)
JSON::ParserError:
743: unexpected token at 'this is not found '
# ./requests/get_other_items_spec.rb:19:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Finished in 13.57 seconds
1 example, 1 failure
Failed examples:

Answer 1

The call should be get get_other_items_path(:id => 5109) - you need to add path to the name of the route, or url if you want the full URL instead of a relative path.

Answer 2

Your route doesn't look like it's taking a :id as a parameter, if you want to send an :id I would expect to see the following:
get_other_items /api/get-other-items/:id(.:format) {:controller=>"api", :action=>"get_other_items"}
Given the structure of your generated route I assume that you are using match to define the route (There is no HTTP verb in your route). To fix it try:
match 'api/get-other-items/:id' => 'api#get_other_items'
If instead you are using restful routes then it looks like you have specified a collection route rather than a member route. A collection route doesn't take an :id and is designed to return many records of the type you have specified. To make it a member route use the following:
resources :api do
get 'get_other_items', :on => :member
end
Once you get this working you should be able to try the following in rspec in your ApiController spec:
get :get_other_items, :id => '5109'
If neither of these options work please post your routes entry so we can try something else.