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Re: How do I mock out the before :login_required method?

by Jarkko Laine :: Rate this Message:

On 13.2.2008, at 5.12, Wes Shaddix wrote:

> I have a GroupController class that inherits from a SecuredController
> which have a before filter (before_filter :login_required). This is
> using the restul authentication system. I want to mock out the
> login_required method so that my GroupController actions don't get
> redirected to /sessions/new but I cant figure it out. Here is what I
> have so far that doesn't work. Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
>
> describe GroupsController do
>
> before(:each) do
>
> # mock and stub the Group model methods
> @group = mock_model(Group)
> Group.stub!(:search_with_paginate).and_return(@group)
>
>
>
> # since this is a secured controller, we have to mock the
> security system too
>
> @current_user = mock_model(User, :id => 1)
>
> self.stub!(:login_required).and_return(:false)
>
> self.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
>
> end
>
>
>
> def do_get
>
> get :index
>
> end
>
>
>
> it "should be successful" do
>
> assigns[:page] = 1
>
> assigns[:search] = ""
>
> do_get
>
> puts response.headers
>
> response.should be_success
>
> end
>
> end
>
> The error I get is
> NoMethodError in 'GroupsController should be successful'
> You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
> You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base.
> The error occurred while evaluating nil.[]=

What do you expect the assigns[:... lines to do? If you mean to use
them as url parameters, you have to pass them to the get method
(through do_get in this case). assigns is a hash that contains all the
instance variables set in the controllers. So if you say "@foo =
"bar"" in your controller action, you can spec it in a controller view
like this: assigns[:foo].should == "bar". However, afaik you're not
supposed to write into that hash in your controller specs. On the
other hand, in the view specs you *do* need a way to set instance
variables available in the views, and there you can use the assigns
for that. So in a view spec corresponding to my previous example, you
would want the instance variable @foo to be there so you would say
"assigns[:foo] = 'bar'" in your before block.

That said, I'm not a fan of stubbing the login_required method.
Instead, I have created a login_as method in my spec_helper that I use
whenever I want to spec something to happen when a logged in user does
something (note that I also use the acl_system2 plugin for roles):

def login_as(role)
@role = mock_model(Role, :title => role.to_s)
@current_user = mock_user({:roles => [@role]})

[:admin, :organizer, :client, :teacher].each do |r|
@current_user.stub!(:has_role?).with(r).and_return(role == r ?
true : false)
end

if defined?(controller)
controller.send :current_user=, @current_user
else
template.stub!(:logged_in?).and_return(true)
template.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
end
end
end

This is a bit simplified but it works for me pretty well with
restful_authentication. Normally you would say something like
"login_as(:admin)" in a before block in controller and view specs.

//jarkko

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