Re: Setting session from tests

[Daniel N <has.sox@gmail.com>]

When using rack test, it maintains a session for you.

In the one test you should post the login deets, and then visit the
URL you want to test.

The session should be sticky between requests from within the same test

hth
Daniel

On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, misza222 <misza222@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to set a session from within the tests?
> I am using Rack::Test to test user authorization mechanism. I need to
> make sure that user is redirected to the 'return_to' path which is
> stored in a session.
>
> post '/login', { :'user[email]' => @user.email, :'user[password]' =>
> @user.password }
>
> I tried creating mock request like
>
> Rack::MockRequest.env_for("/login", {:"rack.session" => {:return_to =>
> '/return_to'}})
>
> and appending it as a 3rd parameter to the post method but no luck. It
> was rather hit and miss approach as I don't really know how env is
> organized :/
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michal
>