I was having trouble getting "login_as" from the ActsAsAuthenticated plugin to work with test/spec on Rails.
TechnoWeenie suggested doing a def login_as... within each context. (It no longer does; I've put the code from this post into that page now.) That didn't seem very DRY, so I tried including ActsAsAuthenticated all over the place. Nothing worked...
Until I realized the problem: each "context" block creates a new instance of Test::Unit::TestCase. I had assumed it created a new instance of XxxControllerTest. Alas. Easy to fix. Just putTest::Unit::TestCase.send(:include, AuthenticatedTestHelper) before the opening of your XxxControllerTest.
For example:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
require 'welcome_controller'
Test::Unit::TestCase.send(:include, AuthenticatedTestHelper)
# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
class WelcomeController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
class WelcomeControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
fixtures :people
def setup
@controller = WelcomeController.new
@request = ActionController::TestRequest.new
@response = ActionController::TestResponse.new
end
context "A logged-in person" do
setup do
use_controller WelcomeController
login_as :yvette_moore
end
...
end
end
