On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:23 AM, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Pat Maddox wrote: >> James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> writes: > >> >> I think Zach's point was that you can tell that someone is logged in if >> you see a "edit your profile" link somewhere, and they're not logged in >> if you see a "log in" link on the page. Yes, of course it's useful to >> know whether someone is authenticated or not...but you can test that >> through properties of your own app, rather than digging under the hood >> and calling the auth system directly. >> > > That is what I gathered from the "visits login_path" statement in > David's example. Still, I am interested in finding out what other ways > are possible to test for session authentication status and how implement > them, if only to assure myself that they are not the way I want to do > this. I have yet to unload a lot of baggage retained from previous > experience.
You're a bit restricted in cucumber out of the box, because for rails, cucumber wraps ActionController::Integration::Session, which goes through routing. You don't have controller objects readily available. You have two options if you want to get at internals here (which should really be your last resort): 1. write a new World for cucumber that wraps ActionController::TestCase instead of ActionController::Integration::Session. You'd have to figure out a way to have that World loaded for some scenarios and the other loaded for others. 2. use rspec-rails for more granular inspection. In an rspec controller spec, you have access to the controller object. HTH, David > > I am also trying to gain a comfort level with the authlogic gem. That > desire is in part driving this quest. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
