[rspec-users] Cookies - how to set in controller specs?

[Christopher Bailey]

I've been searching Google, the mailing list, etc, etc. and can't for
the life of me get a cookie to be set in a controller spec.  From
everything I've read on the web, it appears all I need to do is the
typical:

  cookies[:name] = value

or

  cookies[:name] = { :value => something, :expires => 1.year.from_now }

I have also see things like doing "@request.cookies[:name]..." or
setting the value to doing CGI::Cookie.new(...), and so on.

I do not want to mock cookies, I want to actually test them, as that
is the logic I'm trying to test.  I know that my actual code works as
I've run through this by directly testing in the browser, but of
course I want specs to test it.  Can someone show a test of setting a
cookie, getting a page/action (and then optionally testing cookie
after that)?

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Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com