Rails - Aug 2009 - Testing controller

I wrote some tests for my controller which all worked as they should
until I added http authentication using ''before_filter
:authenticate''

This is the authenticate method:

def authenticate
  authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |user, password|
    user == "x" && password == "y"
  end
end

Now, for example, the following test fails and returns a 404:

def test_should_get_index
  get :index
  assert_response :success
end

Is there any way to pass the user and password to the test. Something
like:

get :index, :user =>"x", :password => "y"

I tried the above and all possible variations I could think of, but with
no success.

Thanks in advance
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Hi
   Once I have answered this

Suppose if you are using a session varible person_id it can be done like 
for example in test_helper just write a def like

def login_as(person)
      @request.session[:person_id] = person ? person.id : nil
end

And from your test call this by passing administrator  object as
variable


def test_should_get_index
  login_as(your_person_object_here)
  get :index
  assert_response :success
end




Sijo
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Hi Sijo,

Thanks for your reply. It certainly put me on the right track.
I solved the problem slightly differently, by adding:

def setup
  super
  @request.env[''HTTP_AUTHORIZATION''] = ''Basic
'' +
Base64::encode64("user:pass")
end

(where ''user'' is the user name and ''pass'' is
the password).

to my test.

Cheers for your help
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Hi Jim Burgess

    You can do same also like

user
@request.env[''HTTP_AUTHORIZATION''] = 
ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials(user.email,"password")


And you can move it to a function as I said above



Sijo
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Jim Burgess wrote:
> I wrote some tests for my controller which all worked as they should
> until I added http authentication using ''before_filter
:authenticate''
Google (or use Google CodeSearch) and find login_as

Put it in your def setup, or in the top of each test:

   login_as :bob

Such a method should have come with your authentication plugin. If it
doesn''t
work, read what''s inside it, and match that to your current session[]
usage.

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