[rspec-users] Specs for authorisation

[Nick Hoffman]

I'm writing specs to check that certain user types are authorised to  
access certain controller actions. In addition to writing specs for  
authorised user types and for users who aren't logged-in, I feel that  
I should write specs for all of the other user types. However, the  
number of examples that must be written quickly soars as the number of  
user types and controller actions increase.

Other than writing methods and/or shared examples to mock and stub  
logging different types of users in, what can be done to reduce the  
size of the spec files...or should I not care about that?

Thanks,
Nick