# Functional Test Problem. Nubee, please help **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 27, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-test-problem-nubee-please-help/59019 "2006-04-27T22:44:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-test-problem-nubee-please-help/59019/1 "2006-04-27T22:44:14Z")
ALl my controllers require the user to be logged in. SO they will be redirected to my “login” controller. How do i login first in a functional test? Im assuming i use the setup method to login the controller. This is the setup method for the Activities controller functional test: def setup @controller = ActivitiesController.new @request = ActionController::TestRequest.new @response = ActionController::TestResponse.new end my “login” controller has a method “authenticate” which needs params[:username] and params[:password]. Please help! Thanks Allen ---
**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-test-problem-nubee-please-help/59019/2 "2006-04-27T23:14:41Z")
On Apr 27, 2006, at 04:44 PM, Allen wrote: > def setup > @controller = ActivitiesController.new > @request = ActionController::TestRequest.new > @response = ActionController::TestResponse.new > end > > my “login” controller has a method “authenticate” which needs > params[:username] and params[:password]. Please help! You can pass several hashes to all of the request methods: params, session and flash. From the AWDR chapter on Testing, specifically Testing Controllers: get/post/put/delete/head(action, parameters=nil, session=nil, flash=nil) Examples: get :index post :login, :user =\> {:name =\> “fred”, :password =\> “abracadabra”} -Brian ---
**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-test-problem-nubee-please-help/59019/3 "2006-04-27T23:27:54Z")
Brian H. wrote: > On Apr 27, 2006, at 04:44 PM, Allen wrote: > > > def setup > > @controller = ActivitiesController.new > > @request = ActionController::TestRequest.new > > @response = ActionController::TestResponse.new > > end > > > > my “login” controller has a method “authenticate” which needs > > params[:username] and params[:password]. Please help! > > You can pass several hashes to all of the request methods: params, > session and flash. From the AWDR chapter on Testing, specifically > Testing Controllers: > > get/post/put/delete/head(action, parameters=nil, session=nil, > flash=nil) > > Examples: > get :index > post :login, :user =\> {:name =\> “fred”, :password =\> “abracadabra”} > > -Brian But if i am in my ActivitiesController functional test, then a call to : post :login, :user =\> {:name =\> “fred”, :password =\> “abracadabra”} will post to the login action of ActivitiesController and not LoginController. Do you see my problem? ---
**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-test-problem-nubee-please-help/59019/4 "2006-04-27T23:45:10Z")
On Apr 27, 2006, at 05:27 PM, Allen wrote: > But if i am in my ActivitiesController functional test, then a call > to : > > post :login, :user =\> {:name =\> “fred”, :password =\> “abracadabra”} > > will post to the login action of ActivitiesController and not > LoginController. Do you see my problem? Well, yes and no. Obviously, if you aren’t in the LoginController, you don’t want to be sending a post to one of its actions. But, in order to test your ActivitiesController you need to be an already logged in user when you call the action. As long as your LoginController sets one, or more, values in the session object that signifies you are logged in, then you don’t really have a problem. Simply pass those same values as part of the get call: get :index, {}, {:logged\_in =\> true} Where the second hash that you pass to get/post/put/delete/head contains the values you want to seed into the session object… -Brian ---
**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-test-problem-nubee-please-help/59019/5 "2006-04-27T23:48:15Z")
On 4/27/06, Allen [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ``` > @request = ActionController::TestRequest.new > @response = ActionController::TestResponse.new > > ``` > > end > > my “login” controller has a method “authenticate” which needs > params[:username] and params[:password]. Please help! > > Thanks > Allen Since you’re going to be testing the actual login process in the functional tests for your login controller, you might as well just bypass it elsewhere. In the setup method, you can say: @request.session[:user] = User.new :name =\> ‘Superhacker’ (or whatever the particulars of your login system require.) ---
**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-test-problem-nubee-please-help/59019/6 "2006-04-27T23:39:05Z")
Hi, You can pass an object as a third parameter that contains the data that would be in you session. Since I’m using activeRbac all I need is a rbac\_user with a couple roles to get past my login system. * * * fixtures :users, :roles def test\_index get :index, {}, {:rbac\_user =\> get\_user} assert\_response :success assert\_template ‘index’ end private ## def get\_user user = users(:testuser001) user.roles.push roles(:Admin) user.roles.push roles(:User) end - Eric Allen wrote: > ``` > @request = ActionController::TestRequest.new > @response = ActionController::TestResponse.new > > ``` > > end > > my “login” controller has a method “authenticate” which needs > params[:username] and params[:password]. Please help! > > Thanks > Allen – Eric G. [http://www.ericgoodwin.com](http://www.ericgoodwin.com) ---
**Author:** ![allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@allen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/allen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functional-test-problem-nubee-please-help/59019/7 "2006-04-27T23:59:10Z")
Allen wrote: > ALl my controllers require the user to be logged in. SO they will be > redirected to my “login” controller. > > How do i login first in a functional test? Im assuming i use the setup > method to login the controller. Functional tests are really unit tests for a controller. They’re really designed to test a single controller in isolation. It sounds like you might want to look at integration tests, new with 1.1 (I think) [http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/09/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1](http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/09/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1) Alan