rspec users - Mar 2009 - Where do I find help about user roles?

I''m trying to create a scenario with a ''given I am logged
in''. I''m
struggling to find good documentation about this, the rspec/cucumber  
book doesn''t have this chapter written yet.

Could you point me in the right direction? Currently I''m starting to  
use Factory_girl gem to do it but not sure if that is the correct way  
or how cucumber is designed to handle these kinds of ''given''s.

Thanks in advance.

Stefan Fountain wrote:
> I''m trying to create a scenario with a ''given I am logged
in''. I''m
> struggling to find good documentation about this, the rspec/cucumber
> book doesn''t have this chapter written yet.
> 
> Could you point me in the right direction? Currently I''m starting
to
> use Factory_girl gem to do it but not sure if that is the correct way
> or how cucumber is designed to handle these kinds of
''given''s.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
Authentication is a very large topic.  There are a number of 
authentication plugins and gems available (logins).  I happen to use the 
AuthLogic gem at the moment.  There is a fairly good tutorial on 
Authlogic at 
http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/3/tutorial-authlogic-basic-setup.

Authorisation (Roles) is a separate matter altogether.  I have a minimal 
authorisation function that simply checks a flag attribute on the user 
model.  This suffices for testing but needs be replaced in production.

Note as well that at the moment I do not use mocks for this stuff.

One of my sample scenarios looks like this:

  Scenario: Add a new client
    Given I do have a user named "authuser"
      And the user named "authuser" authenticates
      And the user named "authuser" is authorized to "add"
"clients"
 ...

The user steps look like this:

(note: some do not approve of instance @ variables in tests)

When /have an? user named "(.*)"/ do |name|
  Then "add an user named \"#{name}\""
end

When /(?:add|create) an?(?:new)? user named "(.*)"/ do |name|
  User.find_by_username(name).destroy
  Then "initialise a new user named \"#{name}\""
  Then "should save the new user"
end

When /initialise a new user named "(.*)"/ do |name|
  @my_new_user = nil
  my_user = User.new
  my_user.username = "#{name}"
  my_user.password = "#{name}-password"
  my_user.password_confirmation = "#{name}-password"
...
  @my_new_user = my_user
end

When /should save the new user/ do
  @my_new_user.save!
end

...

The authentication step looks like this:

When /user named "(.*)" authenticates/ do |name|
  visit new_user_session_path
  Then "see an authentication request message"
  Then "enter the username \"#{name}\""
  Then "enter the password \"#{name}-password\""
  Then "press the authenticate button"
  Then "see an authentication success message"
  visit root_path
  have_no_selector("#authentication_request")
end


And so on.  No doubt there are better ways to do it but this works for 
me.

HTH
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James Byrne wrote:
> When /(?:add|create) an?(?:new)? user named "(.*)"/ do |name|
>   User.find_by_username(name).destroy
s/b
  User.find_by_username(name).destroy if User.find_by_username(name)

Sorry about that.
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Have a look at fbrp http://github.com/diabolo/fbrp/tree/master , it has a
feature based rewrite of RestfulAuthentications tests, using Object_Daddy
and Cucumber. Lots of logging in without using features

HTH

Andrew

2009/3/24 Stefan Fountain <stefan at soocial.com>
> I''m trying to create a scenario with a ''given I am logged
in''. I''m
> struggling to find good documentation about this, the rspec/cucumber book
> doesn''t have this chapter written yet.
>
> Could you point me in the right direction? Currently I''m starting
to use
> Factory_girl gem to do it but not sure if that is the correct way or how
> cucumber is designed to handle these kinds of ''given''s.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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