The login! test helper for Restful Authentication and Machinist
by Trevor Turk
A recent blog post reminded me that I should share a little test helper we’ve been using quite happily at the office lately. This trick works great with our extra-restful Restful Authentication and fixture-free Machinist setup.
It creates a new user with Machinst, and then logs the user in. We add a touch of convenience by returning the user object, and finish off by allowing you to pass in extra options if necessary.
def login!(options = {})
user = User.make(options)
@request.session[:user_id] = user.id
user
end
This allows for many little niceties in your tests:
# login as a newly created user login! # login and keep the user around for assertions and whatnot: user = login! # login with admin privileges login!(:admin => true)
It’s a small thing, but give it a try! I’m sure you’ll like it.
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YTMND!!
Trevor, in this case, I definitely agree that it's clarifying to have a bang here.
Maybe the rule for idiom should be like this:
Use a bang if:
An activerecord model is changing something in the db.
A activerecord model is saving or failing (e.g. create!, save!)
A method is changing session state in a test.
Hmm, what else?
I like.
Would you mind sharing the code inside your User.make, i'm curious how you deal with Machinist and the password/salt hashes.
thanks
Keith, I'm not doing anything special, I don't think: http://gist.github.com/137125
This was super helpful thanks for the information. I tried this with machinist and did find a couple things different from the default install of restful_auth
1. The blueprint has username and my user had login instead of username so my blueprint looks like the below
User.blueprint do
login
email
password 'monkey'
password_confirmation "#{password}"
activation_code nil
end
Also here is the sham definition for people that care:
Sham.define do
email { Faker::Internet.email }
login { Faker::Internet.user_name }
end
The reason for the setting the activation_code to nil is so that my tests dont generate the emails that happen as observers during signup. I had to change the default user observer that restful_auth puts in to be the following
def after_create(user)
UserMailer.deliver_signup_notification(user) if user.active?
end
Hope that helps others get a passing set of tests