[rspec-users] post authentication token

[Matt Wynne]

Another tip is to use script/console and walk the app manually.

In script/console you get an app object which is the context that your  
story steps / integration tests run in.

e.g.
$script/console
Loading rails blah blah blah
 >> app.post "/login", :username => "matt", :password => "secret"
 >> puts app.response.body
 >> app.visits "/hello"

etc.

Often quite handy for having an explore when you can't figure out how  
to drive something from a test.

On 7 Oct 2008, at 13:47, Zach Dennis wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Mark Thomson <mark.thomson at ieee.org>  
> wrote:
>> Hmm, thanks. Still not sure if I'm diagnosing my problem correctly.  
>> Just to
>> be clear, I don't have any user authentication going on, just a  
>> regular
>> Rails button_to call. I tried installing webrat and put "visits '/'  
>> " in my
>> "given" step and "clicks_button" in my "when" step. However I get  
>> an error
>> from my_story.rb - "No such file or directory - open
>> tmp/webrat-12233801950.html.
>>
>> Presumably my issue would also apply in posting a form in a regular  
>> Rails
>> integration test. The example on pp207-208 of AWDR  doesn't suggest  
>> that
>> anything needs to be done in a post call to achieve session  
>> authentication.
>> And I see here -
>> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/RequestForgeryProtection/ClassMethods.html#M000693
>> that forgery protection is actually turned off in testing - which  
>> I've
>> confirmed in my config/environments/test.rb. So maybe I have some  
>> other
>> problem causing my response test to fail. Any other suggestions  
>> would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>
> Have you looked at your log/test.log file to see if there are any
> exceptions being thrown? Or at least to see what is being rendered,
> perhaps you're hitting a path you don't intend.
>
> -- 
> Zach Dennis
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