Removed that failing spec: it wasn't proving anything useful. What it seemed to be checking was that if the user somehow forced the data_type_id of a request to be something other than text, it should re-render the new view... but that seems extremely border-case and un-useful. But just in case, I did add a filter to force a check of that param (though... why do we even pass it, if it can never be anything else?) Anyway, that spec is green now.