How do I set headers for an Rspec post?

Question

In my Rspec controller test function I've tried all the following:

post('pay', {p: 'x'}, password: 'x')

post('pay', {p: 'x'}, {password: 'x'}),

request.headers['password'] = 'x'; post('pay', {p: 'x'})

None sends headers - in my controller I can't see any headers when saying puts headers.inspect. (But the param p is received correctly.)

How do you set headers in Rspec?

• I'm using rspec-rails 3.1.0, ruby 2.3.0, rails 4.2.7.
• My controller inherits from ActionController::Base.
• My spec has require spec_helper (and I tried without it)

Answer 1

request.headers['password'] = 'x' is correct. In your controller, however, you should be inspecting request.headers and not just headers.