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Dennis
Dennis

Reputation: 1018

Reducing network requests for RSpec controller specs, how to set headers

I'm running a Rails 5 JSON API server. I have some controller specs written, but I' noticing that they are taking a really long time to run, and I'm looking for a way to optimize.

One way I've read about is to reduce the number of network requests by essentially making the GET/POST requests in a before(:all) or before(:context) block, and then having the subsequent it statements test the response from the single network request.

One issue I'm running into is that within my before(:context) block, I don't seem to have access to modify the request headers. For example, currently it my code looks like:

before(:each) do
  add_authorization_header
  get :index
end

where add_authorization_header looks like:

request.headers['Authorization'] =
"Token token=#{some_authorization_token)}"

but when I chance before(:each) to before(:context) I get the following error:

NoMethodError: undefined method `headers' for nil:NilClass

Is there a way to set the request headers within a before(:context) block?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 278

Answers (1)

Vasilisa
Vasilisa

Reputation: 4640

I think you have no access to the request object inside the example group. Try:

before(:context)
  headers = { "Authorization" => "Token token=#{some_authorization_token)}" }
  get :index, params: {}, headers: headers
end

Upvotes: 1

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