How do I get the response returned from Rack in a Cucumber step?

Question

I have a Cucumber step for my Rails application:

Then /^I should be redirected to the sign in page$/ do
  assert_equal 302, @response.status
end

But that @response object is the one returned by my Controller, and it's the Rack middleware that sets the status to what I expect it to be. How can I get at the response as returned from the outer-most middleware instead of the one returned from the controller?

Answer 1

Try using just response without the '@'. It will give you the response object WebRat sees.