Testing as a logged in user in rails

Question

I wanna test my functionals in my rails application, but the tests require a user/admin to be logged in. I have looked at many websites, but I cannot grasp what I really should be doing to make it work. I'm sure there there is an easy thing to do, but I cannot seem to find it.

I have seen the stubs command used, but I only get that it is an undefined method and I don't really know what it is supposed to do.

Any ideas on how I can run my tests as if it was an user/admin requesting them?

Thanks for any help I might get.

Answer 1

acceptance/integration testing:

1. If you're using cucumber, just login as the user. Something like:

   fill_in 'users[username]', :with => "my username" fill_in 'users[password]', :with => "my password" click_button "Log In"

2. If you're using rspec+capybara, you can do something like this (assuming you're using Devise for authentication)

   # spec/spec_helper.rb
   include Warden::Test::Helpers
   
   # in spec/acceptance/some_spec.rb
   ...
   login_as FactoryGirl.create(:user)
   

unit testing

• see https://github.com/plataformatec/devise#test-helpers if you're using Devise
• otherwise, you can implement similar functionality by writing to the session object, or by stubbing out current_user (assuming you call it that)