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maxjustus / sinatra-authentication

A sinatra extension wrapped in a gem that implements authentication/permissions with users stored in the database. Now with optional support for facebook connect
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Testing authentication #10

Open jergason opened 13 years ago

jergason commented 13 years ago

I am struggling with how to test authentication using RSpec 2.0. I can verify that authentication and signup works manually, but in my spec I run in to some problems. I create users in the database, and try to manually assign my create user id to the session variable, like so:

session[:user] = @user.id

I have verified that @user exists and is valid. However, I get the following error:

NameError:
undefined local variable or method `session' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1:0x000001019967c0>

How can I log users in programatically in my tests? I am including my "app.rb" file that includes sinatra-authentication and the rest of my gems, so I don't know why "session" doesn't exist.

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cmhobbs commented 13 years ago

I'm taking a look at this and I'm going to try to build up a set of specs for sinatra-authentication itself. I'll bump the issue when I'm done.