Hi all,
I've been Googling this one for a while now, and haven't found a satisfactory answer. It has been posted here before by someone else, but it seems to have got forgotten, so here goes - perhaps someone can think up a way around the problem?
In ApplicationController, I have the following method:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
<snip>
helper_method :admin?
# Discover whether the currently logged user is an admin user def admin? User.find_by_id(session[:user_id]).admin? unless session[:user_id].nil? end <snip>
This method works fine in various views, but I can't seem to test it. Rails doesn't generate a test file for ApplicationController, so I have done that:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper' require 'application.rb'
# Re-raise errors caught by the controller. class ApplicationController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
class ApplicationControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures :users
def logger RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER end
def setup @controller = ApplicationController.new @request = ActionController::TestRequest.new @response = ActionController::TestResponse.new
end
def test_admin # Don't know how to test "admin?" assert false end
end
I can run this test successfully, but if I include a call to admin?, I get a NoMethodError. I also get the same thing if I try testing it in another controller (which inherits from application.rb).
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Henry