On 13.9.2007, at 15.25, Luke Galea wrote:
Hi all,I'm using Goldberg, an engine that provides roles based access control for my app. I need to login before I can do controller tests, but I can't find any examples of people doing this. Could someone point me in the right direction?
This is what we do:
in spec_helper.rb:
include AuthenticatedTestHelper
def login_as(user)
controller.send :current_user=, user
end
Then, in a before(:all) block, I can say login_as(@user) with a user
object. This assumes you're using restful_authentication (and should
work with acts_as_authenticated as well).
I thought the simplest way would be to either call the login action from my other tests before(:all), but I can't seem to find how to call another controller from within the spec for a different controller. (Results in @controller is nil).
You can't and shouldn't do that. Just find out how your particular authentication system determines the login and create a helper method like login_as above to simulate the login.
-- Jarkko Laine http://jlaine.net http://dotherightthing.com http://www.railsecommerce.com http://odesign.fi
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