[rspec-users] help on skipping a before_filter for a story

[Jonathan Linowes]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Eric Harris-Braun wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm hoping for a bit of help on best-practices for skipping a
> before_filter when running a particular step.  Specifically the
> authentication filter.  What happens is that the post (see code below)
> returns a redirect response to the login page triggered by the of my
> authentication filter, rather than the contents of what I'd like to be
> testing.
>
> How do people handle temporarily turning of this kind of thing that's
> not relevant to the test?  Temporarily I've just put an unless  
> RAILS_ENV
> == 'test' after it, but obviouly that won't work for the specs that
> actually test that before filter!
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> -Eric
>
>   Given "$field in new entry is $field_value" do |field,field_value|
>     @params ||= {}
>     @params[field.intern] = field_value
>   end
>
>   When "submitting the new entry" do
>     post "/entry", :record => @params
>   end
>
>   Then "should include confirmation: $message" do |message|
>     response.should have_text(/#{message}/)
>   end

If your controller has this

	:before_filter :login_required

and say, login_required is defined in application.rb, then your  
controller spec can stub it out

	controller.stub!(:login_required).and_return(true)