Functional testing controllers that rely authentication

Rails
1

I have this login scheme in my application.rb controller that looks
like this: (pretty must straight from the rails recipes book):

def check_authorization
@user=User.find(session[:user])

       unless @user.roles.detect {|role|
           role.rights.detect{|right|
                   right.action == action_name &&

right.controller == self.class.controller_path
}
}

           render :text => "You are not authroized to preform this

action", :status => 403
return false
end
end

This works fine, but It makes it hard for me to functional test my
controllers. Because now when I run my functional tests they all fail
with 403 authentication errors.

How can I login on my functional tests ?

2

On 9/12/07, eggie5 [email protected] wrote:

                   right.action == action_name &&

This works fine, but It makes it hard for me to functional test my
controllers. Because now when I run my functional tests they all fail
with 403 authentication errors.

How can I login on my functional tests ?

def setup
session[:user] = 1
end

3

Thanks,

Also for anyone out there, don’t forget to include any fixtures that
you code will you at any point during this test. For me that was
including the rights & roles fixtures that my authentication
controller uses.

4

On 9/12/07, Jason R. [email protected] wrote:

       unless @user.roles.detect {|role|
end

def setup
session[:user] = 1
end

Sorry

def setup
[ default setup stuff here]

@request.session[:user] = 1
end