Rails - Sep 2009 - testing - how do i log in different users and have tests done?

hi all,

 I googled a bit and tried looking up several rails books to no
success.

 I have a users.yml file which contains two users: one with admin
priviledges and one without

 My application_controller.rb has a method which checks if a given
user has admin priviledges or not.

 I have 3 controllers: Users, UserSessions and Post.
 I am using Authlogic.


 For my Post functional tests, I would like to know how do I log each
user fixture in and test as accordingly (ie some parts of the site
should not be accessible by non-admin users).


 Thank you.

Why not try the famous restful_authentication plugin? Then in your
test_helper.rb add this line:

include AuthenticatedTestSystem

Now you''ll have a login_as method, which will do what you need.

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James Chen
http://ashchan.com

On Sep 18, 3:45 pm, ct9a
<anexi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> hi all,
>
>  I googled a bit and tried looking up several rails books to no
> success.
>
>  I have a users.yml file which contains two users: one with admin
> priviledges and one without
>
>  My application_controller.rb has a method which checks if a given
> user has admin priviledges or not.
>
>  I have 3 controllers: Users, UserSessions and Post.
>  I am using Authlogic.
>
>  For my Post functional tests, I would like to know how do I log each
> user fixture in and test as accordingly (ie some parts of the site
> should not be accessible by non-admin users).
>
>  Thank you.

2009/9/18 ct9a
<anexiole-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
>
> hi all,
>
>  I googled a bit and tried looking up several rails books to no
> success.
>
>  I have a users.yml file which contains two users: one with admin
> priviledges and one without
>
>  My application_controller.rb has a method which checks if a given
> user has admin priviledges or not.
>
>  I have 3 controllers: Users, UserSessions and Post.
>  I am using Authlogic.
>
>
>  For my Post functional tests, I would like to know how do I log each
> user fixture in and test as accordingly (ie some parts of the site
> should not be accessible by non-admin users).
>
>
>  Thank you.
I use restful authentication rather than authlogic but I imagine the
principle is the same in that you need to setup the session for the
test as if the user was logged in.  The testing rails guide at
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html has a bit on this.  For
example one of my tests has:
get :show, {:id => some_id}, { :user_id => users(:colin).id }
which sets user_id in the session to the appropriate value as if I
were logged in.

In fact I think there is a alternative way of setting the session in
the test setup, so it does not need to be added to every action, but I
forget what it is at the moment.

Colin

anyone who''s using Authlogic and got a solution for creating tests
(that can auto login)?

I started with this blog post:

http://iain.nl/2008/11/authlogic-is-awesome/




On Nov 4, 8:25 pm, ct9a <anexi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> anyone who''s using Authlogic and got a solution for creating tests
> (that can auto login)?

ct9a wrote:
> anyone who''s using Authlogic and got a solution for creating tests
> (that can auto login)?
Check out the specs and Cucumber features for Quorum ( 
http://github.com/marnen/quorum2 ).

Best,
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