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
>
>
Hi Eric,
The point of stories is to have them act as integration tests going
through the entire stack just like a typical user would. So, you should
really be logging in to your app before you start submitting forms. So
doing something like:
When "submitting the new entry" do
User.create!(:login => 'james', :password => 'password')
post "/sessions", :login => 'james', :passsword => 'password'
post "/entry", :record => @params
end
I typically extract this out into a helper called 'login' where I can
simply pass a user object.
BTW, have you checked out webrat yet? It makes submitting forms very easy.
HTH,
Ben
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