rspec and cookies

[David Green]

Hello

can anyone tell me how to test cookies using rspec? specifically, I'd like to be able to set a cookie before a get/post request and also to test the cookies which have been set by a get/post request

I know I can use cookies[:name] = 'value' to set a cookie but how would I set expiry information on such a cookie? when i try to pass a hash {:value => 'value', :expires => 3.days.from_now} the entire hash becomes the value of cookies[:name]

thanks
david

[François Beausoleil-4]

Hello David,

2007/1/29, David Green <justnothing@...>:
> I know I can use cookies[:name] = 'value' to set a cookie but how would I
> set expiry information on such a cookie? when i try to pass a hash {:value
> => 'value', :expires => 3.days.from_now} the entire hash becomes the value
> of cookies[:name]

When the cookie comes back through the browser, it never has any
expiration or options.  The browser handles that information.  That's
why you can't set those options on the requesting side.

When responding, however... that's another story.

Hope that helps !
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[David Green]

Hello David,

2007/1/29, David Green <[e-mail]>:
> I know I can use cookies[:name] = 'value' to set a cookie but how would I
> set expiry information on such a cookie? when i try to pass a hash {:value
> => 'value', :expires => 3.days.from_now} the entire hash becomes the value
> of cookies[:name]

When the cookie comes back through the browser, it never has any
expiration or options.  The browser handles that information.  That's
why you can't set those options on the requesting side.

When responding, however... that's another story.

Hope that helps !
--

thanks Francois. That explains a lot.