last modified: May 29, 2007
(first posted: May 29, 2007)
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(first posted: May 29, 2007)
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Rspec 1.0 and Restful Authentication
Here are specs for the restful_authentication plugin that work with Rspec on Rails 1.03
I've started using RSpec on Rails for spec'ing (aka testing). More about that in a separate post (I haven't had time to write up a walkthrough of my great experience with it).
Anyway, my project uses restful_authentication plugin so I started looking around and found a set of spec files for it on Jonathan.inspect blog but they're out of date with regard to the the Rspec 1.03 API.
I've updated the files. I didnt make any changes to the code except what was needed to make it work with the current API. (In fact, for example, I did not change "context" to "describe" or "specify" to "it"). Here they are:
The zip includes the files
- user_spec.rb : User model specs
- user_notifier_spec.rb : UserNotifier model specs
- user_observer_spec.rb : UserObserver model specs
- users_controller_spec.rb : Users controller specs
- sessions_controller_spec.rb : Sessions controller specs
Per Jonathan,
You should also add :
def set_mailer_in_test
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :test
ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.deliveries = []
end
to Spec::Rails::EvalContext class in your spec_helper.rb.
Hey, thanks for updating these files, they came from my early days working with RSpec, so they are not the most elegants specs out there.
David, thanks for the new syntax. As I stated before these are old specs written as of RSpec 0.7.x/0.8.x hence the need for this monkey patching of Spec::Rails::EvalContext. If I recall correctly there were no other way of doing that at that time.
I have a slightly different way of doing this. See http://sample.caboo.se/empty_rails_app/trunk/
I basically include the auth stuff as a module.
I am using these specs and after some tweaking they all examples seem to be passing.
Except one!
The Sessions controller should login with cookie - just refuses to work, if I change any of the specs, then it breaks more of them. I have read through the code several times and I can't see any reason for it failing. Please let me know if you have any idea how I can fix this.
You can mail me at: hey [at] criticalwebdesign.co.uk
Thanks in advance!
Hi Andy, they all are working for me. I'd suggest checking your test.log file, and/or debugging with ruby-debug (I've gotten to the point of putting 'debugging' statements almost any time something doesnt work mysteriously).
I'm not sure, but shouldnt UserNotifier.new really be UserMailer.new? I had about 45 errors, changed that then it fixed everything. I haven't ever used the activation code in RA, but decided to this time...and Im not that familiar with action mailer either...
@Andy, not sure if you figured it out yet but I had a similar error. This was caused by the fact that I move all the protected methods in the sessions controller spec to the spec_helper.rb. Doing so rendered the cookie_for method unable to create a cookie as that method depends on the presence of the users fixture. Now I pass the object User to the method instead of the symbol. Now it works.
Hope that helps!
Not only posted I twice erroneously, my comment was off the mark as well.
@Andy, sorry I was wrong. My error stemmed from the fact that the sessions controller action new place no call to the current_user method in AuthenticatedSystem. Precisely this call makes sure the user is logged in through a cookie (via the login_from_cookie method). If you do not call current_user your tests will fail.
I'm just learning rspec and despite the now old syntax these examples were extremely helpful. Big thanks!
Rspec 1.0 and Restful Authentication
Posted by: David Chelimsky on May 29, 2007 10:57 PMmodule Helpers #can be named anything def set_mailer_in_test ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :test ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true ActionMailer::Base.deliveries = [] end end Spec::Runner.configure do |config| config.include Helpers end#