On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 05:05, David Chelimsky wrote: > On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Marko Anastasov wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I set a value in controller spec using @request.cookies: >> https://gist.github.com/371356ba0a19666fd3b5 >> >> but when the controller reads it, it's nil somehow, as this screenshot >> from the debugger shows: >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/830772/p/Selection_033.jpeg >> >> This does not occur in development environment. I'm using RSpec 2.4 >> and Rails 3. >> >> Does someone have an idea what I am doing wrong / how to solve this? > > That looks like it should work, and I don't think you're doing anything wrong. > > What's happening is that the object returned by @request.cookies is a Hash, > but the object returned by cookies() in the controller is an > ActionDispatch::Cookies::CookieJar. If you print them both out with .inspect, > they'll both say they are {:lastfm_username => "rj"}, but the answer > differently to other questions: > > # in spec > @request.cookies[:lastfm_username] # => "rj" > @request.cookies["lastfm_username"] # => nil > > # in controller > cookies[:lastfm_username] # => nil > cookies["lastfm_username"] # => nil > > You'll see exactly the same behavior, btw, in a Rails functional test (which > an RSpec controller spec wraps), so this is happening in the Rails test > infrastructure, not RSpec. Care to log a bug report in the Rails tracker? > > https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/ >
Thanks for your explanation David. I created Rails ticket #6272. Later I found a workaround of using request.cookies in the controller, but it would be nice if it would just work with cookies. Btw I was also not sure when to use symbols, and when keys. Eg if I set a value in controller: cookies.permanent[:lastfm_username] = username then in spec, I need to obtain the value with a string: cookies["lastfm_username"].should == "rj" Marko _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
