Rails/Rspec Make tests to pass with http basic authentication

Question

Hi,

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!

Answer 1

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