testing - how do i log in different users and have testsdone?

hi all,

I googled a bit and tried looking up several rails books to no
success.

I have a users.yml file which contains two users: one with admin
priviledges and one without

My application_controller.rb has a method which checks if a given
user has admin priviledges or not.

I have 3 controllers: Users, UserSessions and Post.
I am using Authlogic.


For my Post functional tests, I would like to know how do I log each
user fixture in and test as accordingly (ie some parts of the site
should not be accessible by non-admin users).


Thank you.


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Why not try the famous restful_authentication plugin? Then in your
test_helper.rb add this line:

include AuthenticatedTestSystem

Now you'll have a login_as method, which will do what you need.

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James Chen
http://ashchan.com

On Sep 18, 3:45*pm, ct9a <anexi... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

hi all,

*I googled a bit and tried looking up several rails books to no
success.

*I have a users.yml file which contains two users: one with admin
priviledges and one without

*My application_controller.rb has a method which checks if a given
user has admin priviledges or not.

*I have 3 controllers: Users, UserSessions and Post.
*I am using Authlogic.

*For my Post functional tests, I would like to know how do I log each
user fixture in and test as accordingly (ie some parts of the site
should not be accessible by non-admin users).

*Thank you.
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2009/9/18 ct9a <anexiole (AT) gmail (DOT) com>:

hi all,

Â*I googled a bit and tried looking up several rails books to no
success.

Â*I have a users.yml file which contains two users: one with admin
priviledges and one without

Â*My application_controller.rb has a method which checks if a given
user has admin priviledges or not.

Â*I have 3 controllers: Users, UserSessions and Post.
Â*I am using Authlogic.


Â*For my Post functional tests, I would like to know how do I log each
user fixture in and test as accordingly (ie some parts of the site
should not be accessible by non-admin users).


Â*Thank you.

I use restful authentication rather than authlogic but I imagine the
principle is the same in that you need to setup the session for the
test as if the user was logged in. The testing rails guide at
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html has a bit on this. For
example one of my tests has:
get :show, {:id => some_id}, { :user_id => users(:colin).id }
which sets user_id in the session to the appropriate value as if I
were logged in.

In fact I think there is a alternative way of setting the session in
the test setup, so it does not need to be added to every action, but I
forget what it is at the moment.

Colin

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anyone who's using Authlogic and got a solution for creating tests
(that can auto login)?
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I started with this blog post:

http://iain.nl/2008/11/authlogic-is-awesome/




On Nov 4, 8:25 pm, ct9a <anexi... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

anyone who's using Authlogic and got a solution for creating tests
(that can auto login)?
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ct9a wrote:

anyone who's using Authlogic and got a solution for creating tests
(that can auto login)?

Check out the specs and Cucumber features for Quorum (
http://github.com/marnen/quorum2 ).

Best,
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http://www.marnen.org
marnen (AT) marnen (DOT) org
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