rails rspec integration_tests and http authentication

Question

I am using Rspec 2 and capybara and defined the basic integration test, i.e.

describe "EeRequisitions" do
  describe "GET /ee_requisitions" do
    it "works! (now write some real specs)" do
      get ee_requisitions_path
      response.status.should be(200)
    end
  end
end

Since the app uses HTTP basic authentication and since capybara says it includes Rack::Test, I expected that adding the line:

authorize 'user', 'password'

would handle it (I've since lost the stackoverflow post that told me that). Unfortunately it didn't - it kept throwing a 'method not found' error. I finally found the solution in a comment to this post: Rails/Rspec Make tests pass with http basic authentication where Matt Connelly pointed me to this gist: https://gist.github.com/mattconnolly/4158961 which finally solved my problem.

However, I'm still wondering why the Rack::Test approach failed as it seems to have worked for others.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '13 at 15:57

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Does including the line

include Rack::Test::Methods

at the top of the tests make a difference?

answered Jul 21 '13 at 15:57

Tyler

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Sorry, no. And not only does that test still fail, but all the other tests in that group now fail as well with the message: undefined local variable or method `app' for # – JESii Jul 22 '13 at 17:35

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