Rails - Apr 2006 - tests and login_engine

Hi there,
I just started writing tests today after some months of using rails (slap
wrists).
I seem to be getting the hang of things, but I''m hitting a wall when it
comes to functional_testing pages protected by login_engine/user_engine.

all my assertions come back with:
Expected response to be a <:success>, but was <302>

Is there a way I can login from within a test?

thanks

dorian

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I do things for love or money

The simplest way to ''login'' when you are testing a protected
controller is to put a user in the session as part of your setup
method, i.e.

  class PithyCartoonTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

    def setup
      @controller = SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperForceGoController.new
      @request = ActionController::TestRequest.new
      @response = ActionController::TestResponse.new

      session[:user] = users(:chiro)
    end

    def test_should_be_able_to_summon_the_power_primate
      get ''team_member'', :name =>
''antauri''
      assert_response :success
     # and so on....
  end

Another good idea is defining a login method in your test_helper.rb
which does a similar thing.

HTH

- james


On 4/28/06, Dorian Mcfarland <loaf@isness.org>
wrote:
> Hi there,
> I just started writing tests today after some months of using rails (slap
wrists).
> I seem to be getting the hang of things, but I''m hitting a wall
when it comes to functional_testing pages protected by login_engine/user_engine.
>
> all my assertions come back with:
> Expected response to be a <:success>, but was <302>
>
> Is there a way I can login from within a test?
>
> thanks
>
> dorian
>
> --
> I do things for love or money
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Dorian Mcfarland <loaf@...> writes:
> 
> Hi there,
> I just started writing tests today after some months of using rails
 (slap wrists).
> I seem to be getting the hang of things, but I''m hitting a wall
 when it comes
to functional_testing pages
> protected by login_engine/user_engine.
> 
> all my assertions come back with:
> Expected response to be a <:success>, but was <302>
> 
> Is there a way I can login from within a test?
> 
> thanks
> 
> dorian
> 
> --
> I do things for love or money
> 
Hi Dorian,

What I did (not staying entirely DRY) was to copy all of the *.yml-files from
/vendor/plugins/user_engine/test/fixtures to /test/fixtures and then add
fixtures :users, :roles, :users_roles (and other fixtures you need) to the test
cases that need authentication.

This ensures that user data is loaded for each test, and makes you able to add:

  def setup
    ...
    @request.session[:user] = User.find(1)
  end

- to each test case, which will "authenticate" you as the
administrator (with
id=1) for all your tests.

Best regards,
Casper Fabricius