On Mar 3, 2012, at 12:35 PM, S Ahmed wrote: > I'm testing my controller, and confirming that a logged-in user can view the > page. > > I have a session_helper that does this: > > def signed_in? > !current_user.nil? > end > > And the current_user is set with: > > def user_from_remember_token > remember_token = cookies[:remember_token] > User.find_by_remember_token(remember_token) unless remember_token.nil? > end > > > So in my controller, I need to fake a login somehow, how should I go about > doing this? > > I'm not sure if this is the best place for it, but so far what I tried was > creating a method in my spec_helper's config block: > > def test_sign_in(user) > controller.sign_in(user) > end > > (I get my user object from factorygirl). > > So my controller_spec looks like: > > > describe "index" do > before(:each) do > @user = Factory(:user) > test_sign_in(@user) > end > > it "should be successful" do > get 'index' > controller.current_user.should == @user > response.should be_success > end > end > > > It is failing with current_user being nil. > > Should I just somehow stub the call to 'user_from_remember_token' to return > the factorygirl user? > How can I do this? > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
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