rspec users - Feb 2010 - Controller specs and Middleware on Rails

Hey guys,

I''m having some problems on my controller specs regarding
authentication.
Previously I was using restful_authentication on the project, but after a
major refactoring we changed the authentication code to "Warden":
http://github.com/hassox/warden (Rack Middleware authentication).

When the controller specs are executed, they fail because there is not a
variable on the request''s env set by the Warden middleware.
I''ve read on a
previous message that I probably should use an integration test in order to
tests this, I used cucumber and test everything successfully. However all my
legacy rspec controller tests (that depended on a current_user) are now
failing.

Is there a way to patch the rSpec controller API to include this middleware
on each test request?
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2010/2/9 Rom?n Gonz?lez <romanandreg at
gmail.com>:
> Hey guys,
> I''m having some problems on my controller specs regarding
authentication.
> Previously I was using restful_authentication on the project, but after a
> major refactoring we changed the authentication code to
> "Warden":http://github.com/hassox/warden (Rack Middleware
authentication).
> When the controller specs are executed, they fail because there is not a
> variable on the request''s env set by the Warden middleware.
I''ve read on a
> previous message that I probably should use an integration test in order to
> tests this, I used cucumber and test everything?successfully. However all
my
> legacy rspec controller tests (that depended on a current_user) are now
> failing.
> Is there a way to patch the rSpec controller API to include this middleware
> on each test request?
Controller specs don''t go through rack in rails 2, so not really.

There are integration specs, which wrap the rails integration test API
so you can do anything you can do in a rails integration test. Just
move the files over to spec/integration, convert the requests from
"get :index" to "get ''path/to/index''"and
you should be pretty much
good to go.

Let us know how that works out.

Cheers,
David

Hey David,

Basically I didn''t try that out. Before I received your response I just
re-defined all the actions related to authentication with warden, with a
nahive implementation of authentication to make the specs run. Not the best
solution, but it works.

Thanks anyway for the help given.

Regards.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:54 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at
gmail.com>wrote:
> 2010/2/9 Rom?n Gonz?lez <romanandreg at gmail.com>:
> > Hey guys,
> > I''m having some problems on my controller specs regarding
authentication.
> > Previously I was using restful_authentication on the project, but
after a
> > major refactoring we changed the authentication code to
> > "Warden":http://github.com/hassox/warden (Rack Middleware
> authentication).
> > When the controller specs are executed, they fail because there is not
a
> > variable on the request''s env set by the Warden middleware.
I''ve read on
> a
> > previous message that I probably should use an integration test in
order
> to
> > tests this, I used cucumber and test everything successfully. However
all
> my
> > legacy rspec controller tests (that depended on a current_user) are
now
> > failing.
> > Is there a way to patch the rSpec controller API to include this
> middleware
> > on each test request?
>
> Controller specs don''t go through rack in rails 2, so not really.
>
> There are integration specs, which wrap the rails integration test API
> so you can do anything you can do in a rails integration test. Just
> move the files over to spec/integration, convert the requests from
> "get :index" to "get
''path/to/index''"and you should be pretty much
> good to go.
>
> Let us know how that works out.
>
> Cheers,
> David
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