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2006-Dec-13 17:13 UTC

acts_as_authenticated plugin test help

Hi,
We are using acts_as_authenticated plugin latest version as of a couple
of days back.

The before_filter :login_required was added to the application
controller. So far so good.

However the functional tests are all failing as one would expect
(perhaps not me though) witha 302 .... exactly - no one is logged in.
This is correct behaviour but a pain when function testing.

Is there a suggested/recommended course of action to handle this ? I
have looked around but have been unsuccessful.

PS. I am using the AuthenticatedTestHelper and its _login_as_ method.
However this requires that every test method must login. I was just
looking
for a differnet way ... if there is one. = )

Thank you for all and any help.
sinclair


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Bala Paranj

2006-Dec-13 21:40 UTC

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Re: acts_as_authenticated plugin test help

For testing controllers which require login, there was a thread earlier on
this list, search for the thread "Testing Actions Requiring A Login".
The Rails Recipes book has a recipe that shows another way to deal with this
problem. It shows how to stub out the login functionality so that you can
focus on the core application functionality.

I am using RESTful authentication plugin and I am still figuring out how to
use the suggestions from the above thread. Last night I was getting error
message when I passed in the user_id, I have to look at the source for the
generated code so that I can replicate the login in the functional test. I
will post an update when I make progress.

On 12/13/06, rails.stuff-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
<rails.stuff-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
>
> PS. I am using the AuthenticatedTestHelper and its _login_as_ method.
> However this requires that every test method must login. I was just
> looking
> for a differnet way ... if there is one. = )
>
> Thank you for all and any help.
> sinclair
>
>

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Bala Paranj

2006-Dec-14 04:38 UTC

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Re: acts_as_authenticated plugin test help

I resolved my problem. For RESTful authentication, there is a
login_as(user) method in AuthenticatedTestHelper module that sets the
current user
in the session from the user fixtures. This is under the lib directory.

In my functional test, I have:

def test_should_show_billing_profile_for_valid_login
 login_as (:aaron)
 get :show, :id => :aaron.id
 assert_response :success
 assert_select "html:root>head>title", "BillingProfiles:
show"
end

users.yml looks like this:

quentin:
  id: 1
  login: quentin
  email: quentin-hcDgGtZH8xNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org
  salt: 7e3041ebc2fc05a40c60028e2c4901a81035d3cd
  crypted_password: 00742970dc9e6319f8019fd54864d3ea740f04b1 # test
  created_at: <%= 5.days.ago.to_s :db %>
aaron:
  id: 2
  login: aaron
  email: aaron-hcDgGtZH8xNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org
  salt: 7e3041ebc2fc05a40c60028e2c4901a81035d3cd
  crypted_password: 00742970dc9e6319f8019fd54864d3ea740f04b1 # test
  created_at: <%= 1.days.ago.to_s :db %>


class BillingProfilesController < ApplicationController

  before_filter :login_required

  def show
    @user = User.find(session[:user], :include => [:billing_profile])
    @billing_profile = @user.billing_profile

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # show.rhtml
      format.xml  { render :xml => @billing_profile.to_xml }
    end
  end

The problem was that I was using session[:user_id] in my controller
whereas the RESTful authentication
module is using session[:user] as shown below:

module AuthenticatedTestHelper
  # Sets the current user in the session from the user fixtures.
  def login_as(user)
    @request.session[:user] = user ? users(user).id : nil
  end
....

So I changed my controller code to use session[:user] and my tests now
pass! The plugin itself has the API to help you do the functional
testing. Very nice indeed.

On 12/13/06, Bala Paranj
<bcparanj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
> The Rails Recipes book has a recipe that shows another way to deal with
this
> problem. It shows how to stub out the login functionality so that you can
> focus on the core application functionality.
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2006-Dec-14 15:40 UTC

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Re: acts_as_authenticated plugin test help

Thanks Bala!
This is the approach I have taken.

sinclair


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Bala Paranj

2006-Dec-14 21:57 UTC

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RESTful authentication is derived from AAA, so it looks like they are very
similar. Keep the bar green! I am addicted to autotest now...
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> Thanks Bala!
> This is the approach I have taken.
>
> sinclair
>
>

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