Rails - Sep 2005 - Functional tests - post() to a specific controller (or get())

Hi there,

I''m having some trouble with my functional tests - most of my
controllers require a user to be logged in. My user login page is
/user/login and the form on this page submits to /user/process_login
(post).

I''ve written my UserController functional tests no problem.
I''ve
extracted a common helper method that sends a post request to the above
action, similar to the example in the Agile Rails book.

However, even though I''ve put this helper method in my test_helper.rb
file, it doesn''t work in any of my other functional tests because it
tries to call the process_login action of whatever controller I''m
testing, e.g. in my news_controller_test.rb testcase, if I call login()
(the name of my helper method), it tries to post to
NewsController#process_login which of course is wrong.

I''ve looked through the Agile Rails book and the API docs and I
can''t
seem to find anything that tells you how you can set a specific
controller using post() or get() (or presumably any of the other HTTP
request methods). There must be a way of doing this, so could somebody
please help me out?

Cheers
Luke


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"Luke Redpath"
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writes:
> However, even though I''ve put this helper method in my
test_helper.rb
> file, it doesn''t work in any of my other functional tests because
it
> tries to call the process_login action of whatever controller I''m
> testing, e.g. in my news_controller_test.rb testcase, if I call login()
> (the name of my helper method), it tries to post to
> NewsController#process_login which of course is wrong.
What I do is modify the session directly from my functional tests
rather than calling my UserController login method.  My authentication
is based on the Login Generator.  The wiki page documentation for that
shows how to do functional testing with it.  Basically you do
something like this:

    @request.session[''user''] = @member

in the functional test method.
-- 
Doug Alcorn - http://lathi.net/RubyOnRailsDeveloper
doug-jGAhs73c5XxeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org

Luke,

For this, i use the following structure in my setup:

    # make sure we are authenticated
    @controller = Admin::LoginController.new
    @request    = ActionController::TestRequest.new
    @response   = ActionController::TestResponse.new

    login_as_admin

    @controller = Admin::TaxController.new

So as you can see, I set up the controller for the login function, and
then once logged in, change to the controller I want to test. Works a
treat :)

HTH,
Dan