Jarkko Laine wrote:
>
> On 13.2.2008, at 5.12, Wes Shaddix wrote:
>
>> I have a GroupController class that inherits from a SecuredController
>> which have a before filter (before_filter :login_required). This is
>> using the restul authentication system. I want to mock out the
>> login_required method so that my GroupController actions don't get
>> redirected to /sessions/new but I cant figure it out. Here is what I
>> have so far that doesn't work. Any help would be most appreciated.
>>
>> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
>>
>> describe GroupsController do
>>
>> before(:each) do
>>
>> # mock and stub the Group model methods
>> @group = mock_model(Group)
>> Group.stub!(:search_with_paginate).and_return(@group)
>>
>>
>>
>> # since this is a secured controller, we have to mock the security
>> system too
>>
>> @current_user = mock_model(User, :id => 1)
>>
>> self.stub!(:login_required).and_return(:false)
>>
>> self.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
>>
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>> def do_get
>>
>> get :index
>>
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>> it "should be successful" do
>>
>> assigns[:page] = 1
>>
>> assigns[:search] = ""
>>
>> do_get
>>
>> puts response.headers
>>
>> response.should be_success
>>
>> end
>>
>> end
>>
>> The error I get is
>> NoMethodError in 'GroupsController should be successful'
>> You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
>> You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base.
>> The error occurred while evaluating nil.[]=
>
> What do you expect the assigns[:... lines to do? If you mean to use
> them as url parameters, you have to pass them to the get method
> (through do_get in this case). assigns is a hash that contains all the
> instance variables set in the controllers. So if you say "@foo =
> "bar"" in your controller action, you can spec it in a controller view
> like this: assigns[:foo].should == "bar". However, afaik you're not
> supposed to write into that hash in your controller specs. On the
> other hand, in the view specs you *do* need a way to set instance
> variables available in the views, and there you can use the assigns
> for that. So in a view spec corresponding to my previous example, you
> would want the instance variable @foo to be there so you would say
> "assigns[:foo] = 'bar'" in your before block.
>
> That said, I'm not a fan of stubbing the login_required method.
> Instead, I have created a login_as method in my spec_helper that I use
> whenever I want to spec something to happen when a logged in user does
> something (note that I also use the acl_system2 plugin for roles):
>
> def login_as(role)
> @role = mock_model(Role, :title => role.to_s)
> @current_user = mock_user({:roles => [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> [:admin, :organizer, :client, :teacher].each do |r|
> @current_user.stub!(:has_role?).with(r).and_return(role == r ?
> true : false)
> end
>
> if defined?(controller)
> controller.send :current_user=, @current_user
> else
> template.stub!(:logged_in?).and_return(true)
> template.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
> end
> end
> end
>
> This is a bit simplified but it works for me pretty well with
> restful_authentication. Normally you would say something like
> "login_as(:admin)" in a before block in controller and view specs.
>
> //jarkko
>
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So, if I update my code to the following, I still get an exception,
although it is a different one. I really wish I understood how to
determine the actual call chain that is going on ... what object is nil
in this case (see error message below the code)?
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
describe GroupsController do
before(:each) do
# mock and stub the Group model methods
@group = mock_model(Group)
Group.stub!(:search_with_paginate).and_return(@group)
# since this is a secured controller, we have to mock the security
system too
@current_user = mock_model(User, :id => 1)
controller.stub!(:login_required).and_return(:true)
controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
end
def do_get
get :index
end
it "should be successful" do
do_get
puts response.headers
response.should be_success
end
end
Exception : RuntimeError in 'GroupsController should be successful'
Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted
the id of nil, use object_id
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