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ajporterfield
ajporterfield

Reputation: 1019

Stubbing current_user in Rails functional test using Minitest

I'm having some trouble stubbing current_user in a Rails functional test for a controller. I'm using Rails 4 and Minitest. Currently, in the setup block I have this line.

ApplicationController.any_instance.stubs(:current_user).returns(users(:admin))

That's kind of working; however, I'm getting the following error from my view where current_user is referenced into a routing/url helper (edit_user_path(current_user)).

ActionView::Template::Error: No route matches {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"users", :id=>nil} missing required keys: [:id]

What is the recommended way of stubbing current_user in controller/functional test? Here's my full test.

require 'test_helper'

class Admin::SitesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
  setup do
    @site = sites(:test)
    @request.env['HTTP_HOST'] = "#{@site.ssl_prefix}.testing.com"
    ApplicationController.any_instance.stubs(:current_user).returns(users(:admin))
  end

  test "should show edit form" do
    get :edit, id: @site.id
    assert_response :success
    assert_template layout: "layouts/admin/layout"
  end
end

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3136

Answers (1)

pixeltom
pixeltom

Reputation: 1797

As always there are many ways to do this. The recommended way to stub the controller instance is to stub directly on the instance you are dealing with. 

def setup
  @controller.stubs(:current_user).returns(users(:admin))
end

In controller tests you have access to the @controller instance.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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