On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 17:33, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Marko Anastasov wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 05:05, David Chelimsky wrote: >>> On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Marko Anastasov wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I set a value in controller spec using @request.cookies: >>>> https://gist.github.com/371356ba0a19666fd3b5 >>>> >>>> but when the controller reads it, it's nil somehow, as this screenshot >>>> from the debugger shows: >>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/830772/p/Selection_033.jpeg >>>> >>>> This does not occur in development environment. I'm using RSpec 2.4 >>>> and Rails 3. >>>> >>>> Does someone have an idea what I am doing wrong / how to solve this? >>> >>> That looks like it should work, and I don't think you're doing anything >>> wrong. >>> >>> What's happening is that the object returned by @request.cookies is a Hash, >>> but the object returned by cookies() in the controller is an >>> ActionDispatch::Cookies::CookieJar. If you print them both out with >>> .inspect, they'll both say they are {:lastfm_username => "rj"}, but the >>> answer differently to other questions: >>> >>> # in spec >>> @request.cookies[:lastfm_username] # => "rj" >>> @request.cookies["lastfm_username"] # => nil >>> >>> # in controller >>> cookies[:lastfm_username] # => nil >>> cookies["lastfm_username"] # => nil >>> >>> You'll see exactly the same behavior, btw, in a Rails functional test >>> (which an RSpec controller spec wraps), so this is happening in the Rails >>> test infrastructure, not RSpec. Care to log a bug report in the Rails >>> tracker? >>> >>> https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/ >>> >> >> Thanks for your explanation David. I created Rails ticket #6272. >> >> Later I found a workaround of using request.cookies in the controller, >> but it would be nice if it would just work with cookies. >> >> Btw I was also not sure when to use symbols, and when keys. Eg if I >> set a value in controller: >> cookies.permanent[:lastfm_username] = username >> >> then in spec, I need to obtain the value with a string: >> cookies["lastfm_username"].should == "rj" > > My understanding is that it's a HashWithIndifferentAccess, which means you > can use string or symbol keys. That said, however, when the app is running > the cookies come from the rack environment and are always string keys, so I'd > recommend sticking w/ that for consistency, but that's a pretty subjective > thing. >
When I inspected spec's cookies' class in debugger, it was Hash. In any case, I will remember that they're always in string keys when coming rack. As I read your reply I connected this with the observation that I needed to add an OR to use string keys in cucumber environment within the controller. Thanks. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
