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kush
kush

Reputation: 16928

Functional testing Authlogic?

In a few of my controllers I have a before_filter that checks if a user is logged in? for CRUD actions.

application.rb

def logged_in?
  unless current_user
    redirect_to root_path
  end
end

private
def current_user_session
  return @current_user_session if defined?(@current_user_session)
  @current_user_session = UserSession.find
end

def current_user
  return @current_user if defined?(@current_user)
  @current_user = current_user_session && current_user_session.record
end

But now my functional tests fail because its redirecting to root. So I need a way to simulate that a session has been created but nothing I've tried has worked. Heres what I have right now and the tests pretty much ignore it:

test_helper.rb

class ActionController::TestCase
  setup :activate_authlogic
end

posts_controller_test.rb

class PostsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
  setup do
    UserSession.create(:username => "dmix", :password => "12345")
  end

  test "should get new" do  
    get :new
    assert_response :success
  end

Am I missing something?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5374

Answers (5)

edH
edH

Reputation: 11

Put this in test_helper.rb if you want all your tests to setup Authlogic:

class ActionController::TestCase
  def self.inherited(subclass)
    subclass.instance_eval do
      setup :activate_authlogic
    end
  end
end

Upvotes: 1

Simone Carletti
Simone Carletti

Reputation: 176562

http://rdoc.info/github/binarylogic/authlogic/master/Authlogic/TestCase

First you need to activate AuthLogic so that you can use it in your tests.

setup :activate_authlogic

Then you need a valid user record as Anton Mironov pointed out.

Upvotes: 4

Waylon
Waylon

Reputation: 454

Here is a link to the AuthLogic test documentation. It's an important one but is a bit buried (the same link Simone posted, however his didn't work anymore).

That page has all the information you need to get going testing you application using AuthLogic for authentication.

Additionally, as railsninja suggested, use factories not fixtures. Take a look at factory_girl and machinist; pick your poison, they are both good.

Upvotes: 0

Anton
Anton

Reputation: 488

You should pass ActiveRecord object in UserSession.create

Something like:

u = users(:dmix)
UserSession.create(u)

Upvotes: 5

nitecoder
nitecoder

Reputation: 5486

All I do in my rspec tests for my controller is create a User with Machinist and then assign that user to be the current_user.

def login_user(options = {})
  user = User.make(options)
  @controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(user)
end

and this attaches the current_user to the controller, which would mean that your logged_in? method would work in your tests.

You obviously would probably need to adapt this to work in Test::Unit, and without Machinist if you don't use it, as I use rspec, but I'm sure the principle is the same.

Upvotes: 3

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