rspec users - Apr 2008 - story runner on restful_authentication question

Hi all,
Have been following:
http://www.tomtenthij.co.uk/2008/1/25/rspec-plain-text-story-runner-on-a-fresh-rails-app
..as an introduction into the story runner.

It shows how to get a couple of scenarios going to test the
restful_authenticated plugin from plain text stories.

I thought I''d go completely bonkers and try and add a story of my own
:)

  Scenario: Registered user logs in
        Given a username ''jdoe''
        And a password ''letmein''
        And an existing user with these credentials
        When the user logs in with username and password
        Then  should redirect to ''/''

And I added these steps to try and make this pass:

 Given "an existing user with these credentials" do
    @user = User.new({ :login => @username,
      :password => @password,
      :password_confirmation => @password,
      :email => "jdoe at test.comm" })
    @user.save
    User.find_by_login(@username).should_not be_nil
  end

  When "the user logs in with username and password" do
    post "/sessions/create", :user => { :login => @username,
:password
=> @password }
  end

  Then "should redirect to ''$path''" do |path|
    response.should redirect_to(path)
  end

However, I''m getting a
 Spec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError: expected redirect to "/",
got no redirect

So the user is definitely being created in the test database, but the
login doesn''t seem to work, or to do the redirect.
I must be doing something silly. If anyone could point me in the right
direction, I''d be very grateful.
Thanks very much,
Steven

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:31 AM, steven shingler <shingler at gmail.com>
wrote:
>  However, I''m getting a
>   Spec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError: expected redirect to
"/",
>  got no redirect
Often when this happens, it''s because an error occurs in the request.
You can tail test.log to see if there are any exceptions being thrown.
 My initial guess is that your request needs to be

post "/sessions"

instead of

post "/sessions/create"

Pat

Assuming there''s nothing helpful in test.log..

Adding ''debugger'' to the misfiring steps may help troubleshoot
this..

You''ll prolly need to add the following to your helper.rb first.
require ''rubygems''
require ''ruby-debug''


Re-run the story and it should stop at the debugger.

Between manually submitting requests and inspecting test.log you should get
further.

- Andy


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On 28 apr 2008, at 17:31, steven shingler wrote:
>
>  When "the user logs in with username and password" do
>    post "/sessions/create", :user => { :login => @username,
:password
> => @password }
>  end
Try post_via_redirect...

greetz,
bartz

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Bart Zonneveld <loop at
superinfinite.com> wrote:
>
>  On 28 apr 2008, at 17:31, steven shingler wrote:
>
> >
> >  When "the user logs in with username and password" do
> >   post "/sessions/create", :user => { :login =>
@username, :password
> > => @password }
> >  end
> >
>
>  Try post_via_redirect...
No that will make his "should redirect to ''$path" step fail
since it
will eat the redirect response and follow it.

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On 29-apr-2008, at 12:46, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Bart Zonneveld  
> <loop at superinfinite.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On 28 apr 2008, at 17:31, steven shingler wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  When "the user logs in with username and password" do
>>>   post "/sessions/create", :user => { :login =>
@username, :password
>>> => @password }
>>>  end
>>>
>>
>>  Try post_via_redirect...
>
> No that will make his "should redirect to ''$path" step
fail since it
> will eat the redirect response and follow it.
Ack, brainfart. I mixed up the two in my head.

gr,
bartz

Thank you for all the replies.
I''m unable to use ruby-debug, cos am running on JRuby, but a liberal
sprinkling of logger.debug in the controllers helped me sort out what
was going on the test.log. Thanks for that tip.

It made me want for a way of writing something to the log from within
the rspec step though - is there a quick way of doing that?

Cheers,
Steven

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Bart Zonneveld <loop at
superinfinite.com> wrote:
>
>  On 28 apr 2008, at 17:31, steven shingler wrote:
>
> >
> >  When "the user logs in with username and password" do
> >   post "/sessions/create", :user => { :login =>
@username, :password
> > => @password }
> >  end
> >
>
>  Try post_via_redirect...
>
>  greetz,
>  bartz
>
>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:51 AM, steven shingler <shingler at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thank you for all the replies.
>  I''m unable to use ruby-debug, cos am running on JRuby,
I haven''t yet used JRuby, but there seems to be a JRuby wrapper for
rdebug

http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/Using_the_JRuby_Debugger

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Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

ooh - good spot! thanks :)

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at
gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:51 AM, steven shingler <shingler at
gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Thank you for all the replies.
>  >  I''m unable to use ruby-debug, cos am running on JRuby,
>
>  I haven''t yet used JRuby, but there seems to be a JRuby wrapper
for rdebug
>
>  http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/Using_the_JRuby_Debugger
>
>
>  --
>  Rick DeNatale
>
>  My blog on Ruby
>  http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
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