Setting sessions in controller testing

[bertly_the_coder]

Hi Guys,

I'm writing some controller tests in rspec and one of them needs a session to be set. Does anyone know how to set a session in rails tests?

[BalaRaju Vankala]

Hello muchira, 

Are you using devise gem for login ?

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:22 PM, bertly_the_coder <muc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Guys,

I'm writing some controller tests in rspec and one of them needs a session to be set. Does anyone know how to set a session in rails tests?

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[Jason Fleetwood-Boldt]

If it is a normal controller or non-Webkit test, you can access the controller variable directly (I think with @controller), so you can just set session vars directly like:

@controller.session[:current_user] = @my_user

If you are writing a capybara webkit test, you don't have direct access to the same ruby environment where the session runs, but you can use this excellent gem to access it:

https://github.com/railsware/rack_session_access

If you're using devise, there's patterns for doing this both in and out of webkit. Checkout this for an explanation: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Test-with-Capybara

On Dec 4, 2014, at 1:52 AM, bertly_the_coder <muc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Guys,

I'm writing some controller tests in rspec and one of them needs a session to be set. Does anyone know how to set a session in rails tests?

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