On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, David Chelimsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 2, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
First, nevermind! Oy! I finally figured it out. The reason it
wasn't working in my controller code was that I was checking for
"cookies[:cookie_key]", not "request.cookies[:cookie_key]"! It's a
bit strange how that manifested, given the fact that referencing
just
"cookies" was a hash with values, but alas, that's what was
happening.
According to the rails API docs you shouldn't have to do that:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Cookies.html
I figured out how to make this work. Here were the steps I took to
get there
and the solution:
def some_action
puts cookies.inspect, cookies[:cookie_key], cookies.class
end
=> {:cookie_key=>"cookie value"}
=> nil
=> ActionController::CookieJar
So the object is not a Hash, it's a CookieJar, which acts as a
proxy to a
Hash. And guess what it does when it accesses the Hash?
@cookies[name.to_s]
:)
So .........
This will actually work! I've proven it with an example that I've
added to
rspec-rails -
http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails/tree/master/spec/rails/example/controller_spec_spec.rb
(look
for "should support setting a cookie in the request"):
request.cookies['cookie_key'] = CGI::Cookie.new('cookie_key','cookie
value')
That will let you access the cookies as documented in the action.
I'm going to add some sort of support to rspec to make this a bit
more
user-friendly and less error prone. I'll follow up when I've done so.
And really, from my interpretation and experiments, if you look at
CookieJar, you can set the value by just passing a string, or a hash.
Passing an actual CGI::Cookie object you're sort of getting lucky due
to how CGI::Cookie.new happens to parse the "value" key/value pair in
the Hash that it gets sent by CookieJar.[]= method. Unless I'm not
reading it right, what happens when you do:
request.cookies['cookie_key'] =
CGI::Cookie.new('cookie_key','cookie value')
is that in CookieJar.[]=, it will wind up doing:
CGI::Cookie.new( { "name" => name.to_s, "value" =>
the_cookie_object_you_passed } )
If you try that in script/console for example, you'll find that
CGI::Cookie.new happens to parse the value (your cookie object
instance) properly and extract out the actual value. But instead, you
can just simplify that all by simply doing:
request.cookies['cookie_key'] = 'cookie value'
This doesn't work for me unless I reference request.cookies in the
controller, which I shouldn't have to do according to the rails docs.
So for the moment, I'm sticking with:
request.cookies['cookie_key'] = CGI::Cookie.new('cookie_key',
'cookie value')
This seems like one of those cases where people were trying to be too
tricky with Ruby code, and mixing symbols and strings in unclear ways
and so on.
Totally agree.
So, thank you very much for your time (that I essentially wasted :(
This is NOT at all a waste of time.
Cheers,
David
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Christopher Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:41 AM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
On Jul 2, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:06 AM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
<snip>
This is just one of those goofy things in Rails testing. I'm
not sure
the best way to make it easier in rspec without breaking
existing
examples in the process. Regardless, here's how you interact
with
cookies from an example:
To set a cookie:
request.cookies[:cookie_key] = CGI::Cookie.new('cookie_key',
'cookie
value')
When I do this, in order to get to this cookie in my controller
code,
I have to do
cookies[:cookie_key][:cookie_key]
Sorry Christopher - try this:
request.cookies[:cookie_key] = 'cookie value'
I tried that (see below in my email - I just mistakenly wrote it
without the "request." at the beginning). When I do this, it
appears
to set it, but then trying to retrieve it in my controller fails
(even
though the key is there, and the value is there, when then
requesting
cookies[:cookie_key] I get no value back). Pretty weird.
Cheers,
David
Basically, it appears that what it does is assign that key a
hash of
its own. That makes sense of course, as I realize a cookie is
really
a hash of name, value, path, expires, and so on. However, it
doesn't
jive with the retrieval, as you shouldn't have to double
reference it
(which I believe is essentially the point of the [] method on
ActionController::CookieJar and is not how things are
documented).
However, what's really behaving weird, is if I do:
cookies[:cookie_key] = "1234"
Then, in my controller code, if I look at "cookies", it shows
that
cookies is a hash, and if I call .keys on it, it spits out
":cookie_key", and if I call .values on it, it says "1234", but
if I
then go and do cookies[:cookie_key], it gives me nil.
Again, I have to suspect something weird going on with Rails test
environment/RSpec, since all this works fine outside of tests.
Any
suggestions on how to debug this further or what might be wrong?
I should note I'm using Rails 2.1, and RSpec and rspec-rails from
about a week ago (from GitHub).
To read a cookie
response.cookies[:cookie_key].should == ["expected value"]
or
cookies[:cookie_key].should == ["expected value"]
Rails provides a cookies object that is actually
response.cookies, so
you don't *have* to reference it through the response object.
I would,
however, as I've been known to try to set a cookie in an
example using
cookies when I should have been using request.cookies. So I
try to
keep them explicit.
HTH,
David
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