Stefan Fountain wrote: > I'm trying to create a scenario with a 'given I am logged in'. I'm > struggling to find good documentation about this, the rspec/cucumber > book doesn't have this chapter written yet. > > Could you point me in the right direction? Currently I'm starting to > use Factory_girl gem to do it but not sure if that is the correct way > or how cucumber is designed to handle these kinds of 'given's. > > Thanks in advance.
Authentication is a very large topic. There are a number of authentication plugins and gems available (logins). I happen to use the AuthLogic gem at the moment. There is a fairly good tutorial on Authlogic at http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/3/tutorial-authlogic-basic-setup. Authorisation (Roles) is a separate matter altogether. I have a minimal authorisation function that simply checks a flag attribute on the user model. This suffices for testing but needs be replaced in production. Note as well that at the moment I do not use mocks for this stuff. One of my sample scenarios looks like this: Scenario: Add a new client Given I do have a user named "authuser" And the user named "authuser" authenticates And the user named "authuser" is authorized to "add" "clients" ... The user steps look like this: (note: some do not approve of instance @ variables in tests) When /have an? user named "(.*)"/ do |name| Then "add an user named \"#{name}\"" end When /(?:add|create) an?(?:new)? user named "(.*)"/ do |name| User.find_by_username(name).destroy Then "initialise a new user named \"#{name}\"" Then "should save the new user" end When /initialise a new user named "(.*)"/ do |name| @my_new_user = nil my_user = User.new my_user.username = "#{name}" my_user.password = "#{name}-password" my_user.password_confirmation = "#{name}-password" ... @my_new_user = my_user end When /should save the new user/ do @my_new_user.save! end ... The authentication step looks like this: When /user named "(.*)" authenticates/ do |name| visit new_user_session_path Then "see an authentication request message" Then "enter the username \"#{name}\"" Then "enter the password \"#{name}-password\"" Then "press the authenticate button" Then "see an authentication success message" visit root_path have_no_selector("#authentication_request") end And so on. No doubt there are better ways to do it but this works for me. HTH -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
