Story runner on restful_authentication question

sshingler · April 28, 2008, 5:36pm

Hi all,
Have been following:
http://www.tomtenthij.co.uk/2008/1/25/rspec-plain-text-story-runner-on-a-fresh-rails-app
…as an introduction into the story runner.

It shows how to get a couple of scenarios going to test the
restful_authenticated plugin from plain text stories.

I thought I’d go completely bonkers and try and add a story of my own

Scenario: Registered user logs in
Given a username ‘jdoe’
And a password ‘letmein’
And an existing user with these credentials
When the user logs in with username and password
Then should redirect to ‘/’

And I added these steps to try and make this pass:

Given “an existing user with these credentials” do
@user = User.new({ :login => @username,
:password => @password,
:password_confirmation => @password,
:email => “[email protected]” })
@user.save
User.find_by_login(@username).should_not be_nil
end

When “the user logs in with username and password” do
post “/sessions/create”, :user => { :login => @username, :password
=> @password }
end

Then “should redirect to ‘$path’” do |path|
response.should redirect_to(path)
end

However, I’m getting a
Spec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError: expected redirect to “/”,
got no redirect

So the user is definitely being created in the test database, but the
login doesn’t seem to work, or to do the redirect.
I must be doing something silly. If anyone could point me in the right
direction, I’d be very grateful.
Thanks very much,
Steven

sshingler · April 28, 2008, 6:12pm

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:31 AM, steven shingler [email protected]
wrote:

However, I’m getting a
Spec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError: expected redirect to “/”,
got no redirect

Often when this happens, it’s because an error occurs in the request.
You can tail test.log to see if there are any exceptions being thrown.
My initial guess is that your request needs to be

post “/sessions”

instead of

post “/sessions/create”

Pat

sshingler · April 28, 2008, 9:52pm

Assuming there’s nothing helpful in test.log…

Adding ‘debugger’ to the misfiring steps may help troubleshoot this…

You’ll prolly need to add the following to your helper.rb first.
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘ruby-debug’

Re-run the story and it should stop at the debugger.

Between manually submitting requests and inspecting test.log you should
get
further.

Andy

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sshingler · April 28, 2008, 10:17pm

On 28 apr 2008, at 17:31, steven shingler wrote:

When “the user logs in with username and password” do
post “/sessions/create”, :user => { :login => @username, :password
=> @password }
end

Try post_via_redirect…

greetz,
bartz

sshingler · April 29, 2008, 12:50pm

On 29-apr-2008, at 12:46, Rick DeNatale wrote:

Try post_via_redirect…

No that will make his “should redirect to '$path” step fail since it
will eat the redirect response and follow it.

Ack, brainfart. I mixed up the two in my head.

gr,
bartz

sshingler · April 29, 2008, 12:54pm

Thank you for all the replies.
I’m unable to use ruby-debug, cos am running on JRuby, but a liberal
sprinkling of logger.debug in the controllers helped me sort out what
was going on the test.log. Thanks for that tip.

It made me want for a way of writing something to the log from within
the rspec step though - is there a quick way of doing that?

Cheers,
Steven