Spec for authenticated user

Testing RSpec
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before_filter :requires_user,
:except => :create

def show
#-------

# the currently authenticated user
@user = user

end

How shall we check the currently authenticated user using rspec?

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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Diwakar, ANGLER - EIT
[email protected] wrote:

How shall we check the currently authenticated user using rspec?

What’s in requires_user?

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private; def requires_user
if user.nil?

  if request.format.html?

    session[ :redirected_from ] ||= request.env[ "REQUEST_URI" ]

    redirect_to( sign_in_url )
  else
    render( :status => 403, :text => 'An authenticated user is

required.’ )
end
end

end

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# the currently authenticated user
@user = user

end

How shall we check the currently authenticated user using rspec?

What’s in requires_user?

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Diwakar, ANGLER - EIT
[email protected] wrote:

 end

end

end

What’s setting the “user” variable before #requires_user is called? Or
is “user” a method inside that controller?

Ignoring that question for a moment, all you need to do is write out
(on paper/in Vim/whatever) the behaviour of each scenario that can
occur while traversing through this controller. For example, one
[verbose] scenario is:

“When a user who’s not logged-in and whose session isn’t being
redirected requests HTML from FooBarsController#show , they should be
redirected to the sign-up page.”

Once you have the behaviour of each scenario mapped out, write specs
for each scenario.

When that’s all done, I recommend writing your specs before you write
code.
-Nick