rspec users - Sep 2010 - how to invoke multiple controllers in the same describe block?

Hi,

I seek to authenticate and then test other routing in RSpec, but the
standard RSpec vernacular...

describe SomeController do

  it "blah-blah" do
     get :new
     ...
  end

end

...doesn''t seem to allow me to post my login data, as in the following
pseudo-code:

describe SomeController do

 before(:each) do
     post :controller=>"authentication", :action=>
"create",
:new_session=>{"user_name"=>"Lille"...}
  end
  ...
end

I''ve scanned all the methods in the RDoc, but I cannot identify the
manner in which I may specify the controller directly. Any help?

Thanks,

Lille

On Sep 3, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Lille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I seek to authenticate and then test other routing in RSpec, but the
> standard RSpec vernacular...
> 
> describe SomeController do
> 
>  it "blah-blah" do
>     get :new
>     ...
>  end
> 
> end
> 
> ...doesn''t seem to allow me to post my login data, as in the
following
> pseudo-code:
> 
> describe SomeController do
> 
> before(:each) do
>     post :controller=>"authentication", :action=>
> "create",
:new_session=>{"user_name"=>"Lille"...}
>  end
>  ...
> end
> 
> I''ve scanned all the methods in the RDoc, but I cannot identify
the
> manner in which I may specify the controller directly. Any help?
Controller specs wrap behaviour of ActionController::TestCase, which is designed
to handle one request per example.

You could do this in request specs (integration specs in rspec-2), which derive
behaviour from rails integration tests.

HTH,
David

Lille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seek to authenticate and then test other routing in RSpec, but the
> standard RSpec vernacular...
>
> describe SomeController do
>
>    it "blah-blah" do
>       get :new
>       ...
>    end
>
> end
>
> ...doesn''t seem to allow me to post my login data, as in the
following
> pseudo-code:
>
> describe SomeController do
>
>   before(:each) do
>       post :controller=>"authentication", :action=>
> "create",
:new_session=>{"user_name"=>"Lille"...}
>    end
>    ...
> end
>
> I''ve scanned all the methods in the RDoc, but I cannot identify
the
> manner in which I may specify the controller directly. Any help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lille
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>    
You can''t do that with basic controller specs.  What you _can_ do is 
stub a method on the controller (maybe #current_user) or set a bit of 
session info like session[:user_id]. So you can set up the spec so that 
a user is logged in when making the request, but you can''t make
multiple
requests in a single spec. For that you''ll want the integration specs
or
Cucumber.

Pat