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Ali Sepehri.Kh
Ali Sepehri.Kh

Reputation: 2508

What is the difference between 'env' and 'request.env' in Rails Controller?

I'm using rspec to write test for my application. In order to authorization I'm sending token in header:

request.headers['token'] = '000000099'
get :index

In controller side I can read this value by request.env["HTTP_TOKEN"] but env["HTTP_TOKEN"] is empty.

What is the difference between them and how can I set env instead of request.env?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 19381

Answers (1)

K M Rakibul Islam
K M Rakibul Islam

Reputation: 34338

request.env is a ruby hash that contains information about a visiting user’s and server environments. request.env is the standard object that's being used in Rails app to extract important information such as path_info, request_uri etc.

env is empty for your test because rspec-rails bypasses the ActionController::Metal dispatch method.

Upvotes: 15

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