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Koxzi
Koxzi

Reputation: 1051

RSpec Devise Session Testing

With rails 4.2.0 and the latest version of RSpec I generated a controller test.

How would I ensure my admin user is logged in?

For example: if current_user.admin?

In the rspec test it mentions it like so:

let(:valid_session) { {} }

How would I enter a valid session?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2462

Answers (2)

ARK
ARK

Reputation: 802

Step 1: You can create custom methods like following in spec folder and then simply use them (after you have done what @Mohammad AbuShady's answer states which usually is done by default in rspec)

module ControllerMacros
  def login_admin
    before(:each) do
      @request.env["devise.mapping"] = Devise.mappings[:admin]
      sign_in FactoryBot.create(:user, admin:true)
    end
  end

  def login_user
    before(:each) do
      @request.env["devise.mapping"] = Devise.mappings[:user]
      sign_in FactoryBot.create(:user)
    end
  end
end

Step 2:

Add login_user or login_admin to your spec file wherever you need and change

let(:valid_session) { {} }

to

let(:valid_session) { {"warden.user.user.key" => session["warden.user.user.key"]} }

I hope you are using devise and warden which are really useful if you don't want to worry about session/login/signup issues.

You can see their documentations here: plataformatec/devise wardencommunity/warden

This answer was written based on documentation of devise: devise-wiki-how-to-test

Upvotes: 0

Mohammad AbuShady
Mohammad AbuShady

Reputation: 42789

First you need to add the devise helpers in spec_helper file to be accessible in the tests, as mentioned in the wiki

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
end

Then in the controller you could easily create a user object and sign it in using sign_in helper method

Upvotes: 5

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