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Here my http basic authentication in the application controller file (application_controller.rb)

before_filter :authenticate

protected

def authenticate
  authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password|
    username == "username" && password == "password"  
  end
end

and the default test for the index action of my home controller (spec/controllers/home_controller_spec.rb)

require 'spec_helper'

describe HomeController do

describe "GET 'index'" do
  it "should be successful" do
    get 'index'
    response.should be_success
  end
end

Test doesn't run because of the authentication method. I could comment "before_filter :authenticate" to run them but I would like to know if there is way to make them worked with the method.

Thank you!

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2 Answers

up vote 51 down vote accepted

Update: Matt Connolly has provided a GIST which also works for request and controller specs: http://gist.github.com/4158961

Another way of doing this if you have many tests to run and don't want to include it everytime (DRYer code):

Create a /spec/support/auth_helper.rb file:

module AuthHelper
  def http_login
    user = 'username'
    pw = 'password'
    request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials(user,pw)
  end  
end

In your test spec file:

describe HomeController do
  render_views

  # login to http basic auth
  include AuthHelper
  before(:each) do
    http_login
  end

  describe "GET 'index'" do
    it "should be successful" do
      get 'index'
      response.should be_success
    end
  end

end

Credit here

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good example, thanks. – Matthew Rudy Dec 5 '11 at 8:42
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it shows request is nil for me. any idea how to get a workaround? – chourobin Apr 5 '12 at 20:01
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For request specs, you can have multiple requests, so request is nil. Instead you need to create an env hash env = {}, update that in your http_login method, and then pass in the env explicitly as in get '/', {}, env. – Jonathan Tran Oct 24 '12 at 4:21
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Expanding on the above, which works for request and controller specs: gist.github.com/4158961 – Matt Connolly Nov 28 '12 at 4:05
+1 for the gist from Matt Connolly; it solved my problem when nothing else did. BTW, I tried to use the Rack::Test authorize method - didn't work. – JESii Mar 2 at 12:01
up vote 13 down vote

Sorry I didn't seek enough, the solution seems to be the following:

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
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