How to set cookies before request spec?

[Meltemi]

I can't seem to figure out how to set a cookie for a Request spec?  Tried:

before(:each) do

  @user = Fabricate(:user)

  request.cookies[:id_token] = @user.id

end

but that gives a NoMethodError errors: undefined method `cookies' for nil:NilClass 

How does one run request specs when cookies need to be simulated?

Using Capybara if that matters

[David Chelimsky]

Request specs wrap Rails' integration tests, which simulate browser
interaction, but that's all. The idea is to not stub, simulate, etc,
anything internal at all. It's OK to create the `@user`, but cookies
should get set by making other requests that do so. Make sense?
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[George Dinwiddie]

Meltemi,

On 2/15/12 9:36 PM, Meltemi wrote:
> I can't seem to figure out how to set a cookie for a Request spec? Tried:
>
> before(:each) do
> @user = Fabricate(:user)
> request.cookies[:id_token] = @user.id
> end
>
> but that gives a NoMethodError errors: undefined method `cookies' for
> nil:NilClass

In that snippit, "request" has not been constructed and therefore is nil.

- George

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[Neill Pearman]

Hi,

I've been trying to find out how to set a client-side cookie in a request spec, and this is the most relevant search result that I can find, so I hope that you don't mind me reviving the thread....

I want to write a request spec that simulates a request where a new cookie value has been set by the client and then sent to a particular Rails end point.  As the cookie is set by the client, I can't use a previous request to set the client.

Is it possible to send a client-side cookie value to a request spec?

Thanks,

Neill