Functional testing controllers that rely authentication

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I have this login scheme in my application.rb controller that looks like this: (pretty must straight from the rails recipes book):

def check_authorization            @user=User.find(session[:user])

           unless @user.roles.detect {|role|                role.rights.detect{|right|                        right.action == action_name && right.controller == self.class.controller_path                    }                }

               render :text => "You are not authroized to preform this action", :status => 403                return false            end     end

This works fine, but It makes it hard for me to functional test my controllers. Because now when I run my functional tests they all fail with 403 authentication errors.

How can I login on my functional tests ?

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I have this login scheme in my application.rb controller that looks like this: (pretty must straight from the rails recipes book):

def check_authorization @user=User.find(session[:user])

       unless @user.roles.detect {|role|
           role.rights.detect{|right|
                   right.action == action_name &&

right.controller == self.class.controller_path }

           }

           render :text => "You are not authroized to preform this

action", :status => 403 return false end end

This works fine, but It makes it hard for me to functional test my

controllers. Because now when I run my functional tests they all fail with 403 authentication errors.

How can I login on my functional tests ?

session[:user] = 1

end

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I have this login scheme in my application.rb controller that looks like this: (pretty must straight from the rails recipes book):

def check_authorization @user=User.find(session[:user])

       unless @user.roles.detect {|role|
           role.rights.detect{|right|
                   right.action == action_name &&

right.controller == self.class.controller_path }

           }

           render :text => "You are not authroized to preform this

action", :status => 403 return false end end

This works fine, but It makes it hard for me to functional test my

controllers. Because now when I run my functional tests they all fail with 403 authentication errors.

How can I login on my functional tests ?

session[:user] = 1

end

Sorry

def setup [ default setup stuff here]

@request.session[:user] = 1

end

4

Thanks,

Also for anyone out there, don't forget to include any fixtures that you code will you at any point during this test. For me that was including the rights & roles fixtures that my authentication controller uses.