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user318722
user318722

Reputation: 215

how to stub or mock authlogic current_user in view specs

i am trying to write some views specs for my rails app, but i stumble on this error: 

ActionView::Template::Error:
       undefined local variable or method `current_user' for #<#<Class:0x007fa47d2612d0>:0x007fa47e267710>

Here is how i wrote my view spec :

describe "/newsletters/index.html.erb" do
  include NewslettersHelper
  include Authlogic::TestCase

  def current_user(stubs = {})
    @current_user ||= mock_model(User, stubs)
  end

  def user_session(stubs = {}, user_stubs = {})
    @current_user_session ||= mock_model(UserSession, {:user => current_user(user_stubs)}.merge(stubs))
  end



def login(session_stubs = {}, user_stubs = {})
    UserSession.stub!(:find).and_return(user_session(session_stubs, user_stubs))
  end



 def logout
    @user_session = nil
  end



context "without a logged-in user" do
    before(:each) do
      activate_authlogic
      logout()
      assigns[:newsletters] = @newsletters = [ mock_model(Newsletter, :titre => "value for titre",
       :sommaire => "value for sommaire", :content => "value for content") ]
    end

it "renders a list of newsletters" do
  # pending("find how to mock authlogic current user in views spec")
  render
  rendered.should have_selector("tr>td") do |row|
    row.should have_content("value for titre")
  end
  rendered.should have_selector("tr>td") do |row|
    row.should have_content("value for sommaire")
  end
  rendered.should have_selector("tr>td") do |row|
    row.should have_content("value for content")
  end
end

end

Upvotes: 1

Views: 805

Answers (3)

Alter Lagos
Alter Lagos

Reputation: 12540

None of the answers worked for me (using rspec 3.9 here), as I was getting errors like #<#<Class:0x007fb9ca387dc8> does not implement: current_user, trying to stub the view or controller objects, so I had to do it like:

  before do
    controller.singleton_class.class_eval do
      # Just defining methods to being stubbed later
      def current_user; end
      def current_account; end
      helper_method :current_user, :current_account
    end
    allow(controller).to receive(:current_user).and_return(user)
    allow(controller).to receive(:current_account).and_return(account)
  end

not the prettiest solution, but it worked.

Upvotes: 0

Delian
Delian

Reputation: 56

The view spec is an isolated context so you need to stub the current_user method in the view context.

view.stub(:current_user).and_return(mock_model(User))

For further reading on the view spec I suggest you the view spec page on relish

Upvotes: 1

caulfield
caulfield

Reputation: 1373

Try controller.stub(:current_user) { mock_model(User) } I think it should help

Upvotes: 1

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