Re: Authenticating before tests

On 13.9.2007, at 15.25, Luke Galea wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using Goldberg, an engine that provides roles based access
> control for my app. I need to login before I can do controller tests,
> but I can't find any examples of people doing this.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction?

This is what we do:

in spec_helper.rb:

   include AuthenticatedTestHelper

   def login_as(user)
     controller.send :current_user=, user
   end

Then, in a before(:all) block, I can say login_as(@user) with a user  
object. This assumes you're using restful_authentication (and should  
work with acts_as_authenticated as well).

>
> I thought the simplest way would be to either call the login action
> from my other tests before(:all), but I can't seem to find how to
> call another controller from within the spec for a different
> controller. (Results in @controller is nil).

You can't and shouldn't do that. Just find out how your particular  
authentication system determines the login and create a helper method  
like login_as above to simulate the login.

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