Functional testing Authlogic?

Question

In a few of my controllers I have a before_filter that checks if a user is logged in? for CRUD actions.

application.rb

  def logged_in?
    unless current_user
      redirect_to root_path
    end
  end

  private
  def current_user_session
    return @current_user_session if defined?(@current_user_session)
    @current_user_session = UserSession.find
  end

  def current_user
    return @current_user if defined?(@current_user)
    @current_user = current_user_session && current_user_session.record
  end

But now my functional tests fail because its redirecting to root. So I need a way to simulate that a session has been created but nothing I've tried has worked. Heres what I have right now and the tests pretty much ignore it:

test_helper.rb

class ActionController::TestCase
  setup :activate_authlogic
end

posts_controller_test.rb

class PostsControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
  setup do
    UserSession.create(:username => "dmix", :password => "12345")
  end

  test "should get new" do  
    get :new
    assert_response :success
  end

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

All I do in my rspec tests for my controller is create a User with Machinist and then assign that user to be the current_user.

def login_user(options = {})
  user = User.make(options)
  @controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(user)
end

and this attaches the current_user to the controller, which would mean that your logged_in? method would work in your tests.

You obviously would probably need to adapt this to work in Test::Unit, and without Machinist if you don't use it, as I use rspec, but I'm sure the principle is the same.

Answer 2

You should pass ActiveRecord object in UserSession.create

Something like:

u = users(:dmix)
UserSession.create(u)

Answer 3

http://authlogic.rubyforge.org/classes/Authlogic/TestCase.html

First you need to activate AuthLogic so that you can use it in your tests.

setup :activate_authlogic

Then you need a valid user record as Anton Mironov pointed out.