Cucumber + Capybara + cookies

[Randy Schmidt]

Oh how I wish "cucumber cookies" weren't a real thing. It makes
googling for an answer kinda hard.

I'm starting to use Cucumber + Capybara on a site that authenticates
with a single-sign-on server. I don't really want to test that aspect
(at least yet) so I want to do everything but reach out to the profile
server. It turns out that if I have a cookie[:user_id] with the id of
a user in the database, I don't need to reach out to the server. I've
tried everything I can think of (and googled) to be able to set a
cookie in the step definition that will get used in the controller but
it isn't working.

Anybody have experience with kind of thing? Any suggestions?

Thanks!
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[John Trupiano]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Randy Schmidt <m...@r38y.com> wrote:

Oh how I wish "cucumber cookies" weren't a real thing. It makes
googling for an answer kinda hard.

Try using negative keywords: cucumber cookies -food -recipe -photos

-John

[Mat Schaffer]

Have you tried making a dev-only controller/action in the app that
sends out the cookie?

This is basically a mock profile server.

Kfitz wrote one of those to support cucumber testing at CIM and as I
understand it worked out well.

-Mat

[Randy Schmidt]

Haha, I was just coming back to this to say that I did this:

class StubUserSessionsController < ApplicationController
def new
user = User.find_by_username(params[:username])
unless user.blank?
cookies[:sat] = params[:username]
cookies[:user_id] = user.id
end
redirect_to root_url
end
end

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.stub_log_in '/stub_log_in/:username', :controller =>
'stub_user_sessions', :action => 'new'
end

Thanks for the suggestion and confirmation that it isn't too much of a hack :P

Cheers!

[Randy Schmidt]

Oh, to be clear, I added that to env.rb so it didn't cruft up the real
app. Working like a charm!!

[Kevin Fitzpatrick]

Try the Capybara list, too. I remember talking to Jonas about this and he didn't think it was a problem. That being said I have absolutely no idea what the syntax is.

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