Hi. I''m trying to inspect an authentication cookie inside of a test. My goal is to test a remember me functionality, so I would like to test for the expiration date of the set cookie. This turns out to be extremely difficult (for me at least). The farthest I managed to get so far is the following: describe "cookies" do let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user)} before { controller.sign_in(user) } specify { cookies.should be_nil } end which fails as follows: 1) UsersController specify and controller variables Failure/Error: specify { cookies.should be_nil } expected: nil got: #<ActionDispatch::Cookies::CookieJar:0x0000000381f670 @secret="1a5f7c9bbff386831db09dfdfc3a4c6b820e3ae8ddf210cc246d0df4cde6492e7c05132eca91bbe0a56b5cf9b266367b834f016c899d1bf6c5ef1f6cdbf78de5", @set_cookies={"remember_token"=>{:value=>"odLMhlC4aXMmRGw62naMcA", :expires=>Thu, 21 Apr 2033 07:04:12 UTC +00:00, :path=>"/"}}, @delete_cookies={}, @host="test.host", @secure=false, @closed=false, @cookies={"remember_token"=>"odLMhlC4aXMmRGw62naMcA"}, @permanent=#<ActionDispatch::Cookies::PermanentCookieJar:0x00000003828d10 @parent_jar=#<ActionDispatch::Cookies::CookieJar:0x0000000381f670 ...>, @secret="1a5f7c9bbff386831db09dfdfc3a4c6b820e3ae8ddf210cc246d0df4cde6492e7c05132eca91bbe0a56b5cf9b266367b834f016c899d1bf6c5ef1f6cdbf78de5">> # ./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb:212:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'' As you can see the information I''m interested in is buried inside this ''cookies'' object in an instance variable @set_cookies @set_cookies={"remember_token"=>{:value=>"odLMhlC4aXMmRGw62naMcA", :expires=>Thu, 21 Apr 2033 07:04:12 UTC +00:00, :path=>"/"} However, so far I am unable to extract the relevant data (i.e. the ''expires'') out of this object. How does one do that? I read somewhere online that the cookies are buried inside the ''response.headers'' object, but at least inside the users controller this object is an empty hash. describe "cookies" do before { get user_path(user) } specify {response.headers["Set-Cookie"].should =~ /remember_token/} end Interestingly enough the same test as an integration test (under the spec directory) does yield a non empty hash but the cookie i''m looking for is not there, only the session cookie. So there it is, what seems to me like a pretty elementary check turns out to be very hard to implement in Rspec. I find that hard to believe and thus expect that this is just a testimony of my poor coding abilities. Can anyone please shed some light on this issue? What am I doing wrong here? How does one test for cookies'' ''expire'' in Rspec? How can I extract the ''expire'' data from the cookie object above? Thanks a lot! --Assaf. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.