On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Jonathan Linowes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Eric Harris-Braun wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm hoping for a bit of help on best-practices for skipping a
>> before_filter when running a particular step. Specifically the
>> authentication filter. What happens is that the post (see code below)
>> returns a redirect response to the login page triggered by the of my
>> authentication filter, rather than the contents of what I'd like to be
>> testing.
>>
>> How do people handle temporarily turning of this kind of thing that's
>> not relevant to the test? Temporarily I've just put an unless RAILS_ENV
>> == 'test' after it, but obviouly that won't work for the specs that
>> actually test that before filter!
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> Given "$field in new entry is $field_value" do |field,field_value|
>> @params ||= {}
>> @params[field.intern] = field_value
>> end
>>
>> When "submitting the new entry" do
>> post "/entry", :record => @params
>> end
>>
>> Then "should include confirmation: $message" do |message|
>> response.should have_text(/#{message}/)
>> end
>
> If your controller has this
>
> :before_filter :login_required
>
> and say, login_required is defined in application.rb, then your controller
> spec can stub it out
>
> controller.stub!(:login_required).and_return(true)
This is true in a controller spec, but Eric was asking about story
steps where this won't work.
Cheers,
David
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