Testing subdomains in controller specs in Rails

[Adam Akhtar]

Hello,

I've successfully got my controller specs working with subdomains by using a before filter like so

before do 

    request.host = "an_account.example.com"

end

When a user tries to access a subdomain they are not part of, they are logged out and sent back to devise's sign in action which ISNT under a subdomain i.e. www.example.com/users/sign_in

Everything works fine in the browser, sneaky users are redirected are barred from entering unrelated subdomains and instead redirected to the sign in form.

However my controller specs are failing with

"Expected response to be a redirect to <http://example.com/users/sign_in> but was a redirect to <http://an_account.example.com/users/sign_in>"

Can anyone help on this?

Here is the before_filter which authorizes users

def authorize_account_subdomain!

    if current_account.subdomain != request.subdomain

      sign_out

      flash[:warning] = t('errors.unauthorized')

      redirect_to new_user_session_url(:subdomain => false)

    end

  end

and the test

context 'when signed_in' do

    let(:user)      { create(:user_with_account) }

    let(:proposal)  { create(:proposal, :account => user.account) }

    let(:subdomain) { user.account.subdomain }

    before do

      sign_in user

    end

    context "when accessing other subdomain" do

      before do 

        other_subdomain = "other_subdomain"

        @request.host = "#{other_subdomain}.example.com"

      end

      it "can not access show action" do

        post :show, :id => 1

        access_denied!

      end

       ...

end

test helper

def access_denied!

    binding.pry

    response.should redirect_to new_user_session_url(:subdomain => false)

    flash[:warning].should == I18n.t('errors.unauthorized')

  end