Forum: RSpec Rack::Test + cookies + rspec

Hi *,
I need to test cookie creation with rspec and using Rack::Test, but for 
some reason I'm not able to pair the real app that creates a cookie with 
the rspec tests.
The spec is like this:

  it "should authenticate using cookies" do
    user = Factory.create :user
    remember_token = Charon.make_remember_token
    set_cookie "warden=#{ remember_token }"
    user.update :remember_token => remember_token
    post '/authenticate'
    last_request.env[ 'warden' ].should be_authenticated
  end

Inside the main app I set the cookie like:

  if !request.cookies[ 'warden' ]
    response.set_cookie( 'warden', :value => env[ 'warden' 
].user.remember_token )
  end

I can clearly see it works when testing manually. For some reasons, the 
rspec cookie is different than the one set by the app.

Is someone trying something similar and can share some code ? I think 
that the problem is in Rack::Test but I'm not sure and I'm not able 
prove it.

  ngw

On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:

>    last_request.env[ 'warden' ].should be_authenticated
> Is someone trying something similar and can share some code ? I think that the problem is in Rack::Test but I'm not sure and I'm not able prove it.
What versions of rails, rspec, rspec-rails, ruby, etc?

Where does this spec live?

On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:12 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:

> On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:
> 
> What versions of rails, rspec, rspec-rails, ruby, etc?
> 
> Where does this spec live?

It's sinatra 1.0, not rails.
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249)
rspec (1.3.0)
rack-test (0.5.3)
rack (1.1.0)

  ngw

On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:

> On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:12 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:
>> 
>> What versions of rails, rspec, rspec-rails, ruby, etc?
>> 
>> Where does this spec live?
> 
> It's sinatra 1.0, not rails.

In which case this is probably not an rspec problem. Where is the 
set_cookie method defined in this example (from your earlier post in 
this thread)?

 it "should authenticate using cookies" do
   user = Factory.create :user
   remember_token = Charon.make_remember_token
   set_cookie "warden=#{ remember_token }"
   user.update :remember_token => remember_token
   post '/authenticate'
   last_request.env[ 'warden' ].should be_authenticated
 end

Also, can you try the same example using test/unit? Do you get the same 
result?

Try:

post 'whatever', {}, {'rack.session' => {:something=>'value'}}

To put things through the session with rack test/sinatra.

Sent from my iPhone

On 16 April 2010 15:59, Ben Lovell <benjamin.lovell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Try:
>
> post 'whatever', {}, {'rack.session' => {:something=>'value'}}
>
> To put things through the session with rack test/sinatra.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
Hmm, hold up, that isn't what you asked for :)

You have to remember that the default Rack::Test::CookieJar#[] only 
returns
cookies that exactly match the domain and path of the current request so 
be
sure to check there first.

Ben Lovell wrote:
> On 16 April 2010 15:59, Ben Lovell <benjamin.lovell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Try:
>>
>> post 'whatever', {}, {'rack.session' => {:something=>'value'}}
>>
>> To put things through the session with rack test/sinatra.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
> Hmm, hold up, that isn't what you asked for :)
> 
> You have to remember that the default Rack::Test::CookieJar#[] only 
> returns
> cookies that exactly match the domain and path of the current request so 
> be
> sure to check there first.

I think this is more of a Sinatra issue, and not an rspec issue.  But, 
since I'm a Sinatra fan, I thought I'd weigh in, since I just went 
through this and it was harder then I would've expected.

If you want to pass session values in tests, you'll have to disable 
sessions in your sinatra app.  I've got a blog post at 
http://benprew.posterous.com/ with the details.

Also, I had to do this in one of my apps recently, take a look at the 
Rakefile, picklespears.com and test/test_player.rb at 
http://github.com/benprew/picklespears