On 25/08/2011, at 11:10 AM, Justin Ko wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Matthias Siegel <matthiassie...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new to RSpec with Rails and I'm trying to work out how I can write
> request specs for resources that require a logged in user.
>
> I can't get this one to pass:
>
>
> describe "GET /admin/account" do
>
> it "should have a 200 status code when logged in" do
> post "/login", { :email => @user.email, :password => @user.password }
> response.should redirect_to("/admin")
> response.code.should eq("302")
> get "/admin/account"
> response.code.should eq("200")
> end
>
> end
>
>
> The login post part works fine and the session gets created correctly in the
> login method, but then the test fails at 'get "/admin/account"' because the
> session suddenly is empty.
>
> I have tried another approach where I set the session manually, to simulate a
> logged in user:
>
>
> describe "GET /admin/account" do
>
> it "should have a 200 status code when logged in" do
> session[:user_id] ||= @user.id
> get "/admin/account"
> response.code.should eq("200")
> end
>
> end
>
>
> But again the session arrives empty in my authorisation method when trying
> 'get "/admin/account"'.
>
> My guess is that it fails because the session relies on cookies and in test
> mode there obviously is no browser and no cookie.
> Are there ways to simulate a logged in user in an app that creates sessions
> with cookies?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>
> What you are doing *should* work. Are there any before_filters altering the
> session? Maybe a gem doing it? Maybe you have an admin namespace that
> calls/uses a different session?
I have an admin namespace, but does that effect the normal 'session' object in
any way?
I've done some more tests and setting the session in the RSpec code via
session[:user_id] =|| @user.id definitely works, however when the GET request
starts, the session is empty in the application_controller before anything else
is executed. I still can't figure out where the session gets lost between RSpec
and the app. I reduced the gems to a minimum set of Rails, Mongoid, BCrypt,
Mail, RSpec, Cucumber and Factory_Girl, but didn't make a difference.
Forgery protection is disabled for test environment.
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