rails rspec http basic authentication test

Question

how do I test logging into a rails 3.1 app with http basic auth using rspec2 & capybara?

I'm using this;

 describe "GET 'index'" do
      it "should be successful" do
        request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic " + Base64::encode64("username:password")
        get 'index'
        response.should be_success
      end
    end

but it gives me this error;

 NoMethodError:
            undefined method `env' for nil:NilClass

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4329985/http-basic-auth-for-capybara — zetetic, Sep 16 '11 at 16:14

score 17 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 25 '14 at 16:25

17

Capybara comes with Rack::Test built in.

So, you can use the Rack::Test::Session.basic_authorize method to set the Authorization HTTP header field before making a request.

basic_authorize 'username', 'password'
get 'index'

edited Feb 25 '14 at 16:25

ma11hew28

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answered Sep 17 '11 at 13:01

ian

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '11 at 14:47

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@request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic " + Base64::encode64("username:password")

This should be:

request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic " + Base64::encode64("username:password")

as request is not an instance variable.

answered Sep 16 '11 at 14:47

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I'm using the solution here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3768718/rails-rspec-make-tests-to-pass-with-http-basic-authentication – raphael_turtle Sep 16 '11 at 14:57

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